Grok 4: 10 Key Facts You Need to Know

Grok 4 is here, but did you know these 10 things about the new model? From benchmark caveats to soloing science, $300 a month secrets to Grok 5 promises, here's 10 new things to know in just under 12 minutes.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Benchmark Results
02:11 - Benchmark Caveats
02:59 - ARC-AGI 2
03:35 - SimpleBench
04:49 - ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’
07:20 - SuperGrok Heavy Price
07:58 - API Price
08:12 - Grok 5, Gemini 3.0 Beta, GPT-5
09:12 - System Prompt Change + $1B a month, pollution
10:20 - Not soloing science, helping you solo code

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ_KrlHgfg&t=1s

Price: https://grok.com/#subscribe
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622

Gemini DeepThink: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-updates-io-2025/#deep-think

https://simple-bench.com/

ARC-AGI 2: https://x.com/arcprize/status/1943168950763950555

Humanity’s Last Exam: https://agi.safe.ai/

SmartGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVade_8H8mE

New Power Plant, 1m GPUs: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-xai-power-plant-overseas-to-power-1-million-gpus

Gemini 3.0 beta: https://web.archive.org/web/20250709174548/https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/b0cce952860b9ff51a0f731fbb8a7649ead23530/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/errorParsing.test.ts

Pollution: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rU4dv2w8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw

System Prompt: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/blob/535aa67a6221ce4928761335a38dea8e678d8501/ask_grok_system_prompt.j2

Burn Rate: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/musk-s-xai-burning-through-1-billion-a-month-as-costs-pile-up

Ron Johnson: https://x.com/jdcmedlock/status/1939814516503847259



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