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Grok 1.5 Vision (in preview) performs comparably to GPT-4V, says xAI

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  1. Grok 1.5 Vision (in preview) performs comparably to GPT-4V: xAI
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  3. Global smartphone shipments +8% YoY to 289M in Q1
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1. Grok 1.5 Vision (in preview) performs comparably to GPT-4V, says xAI

  • “Available soon to our early testers and existing Grok users.”

  • “In the coming months, we anticipate [making] significant improvements” in multimodal understanding and generation capabilities.

  • Our view: xAI is 6-12 months behind OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

    • But never bet against Elon.

2. GPT-4 Turbo's April update available on ChatGPT Plus, taking back #1 position on from Claude 3 Opus

  • API had been updated on Tue.

    • Statistically insignificant difference between them.

    • Could be a sign that LLM quality is plateauing with current technology.

  • 100s of Fortune 500 company execs have been pitched on ChatGPT Enterprise by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, relatedly.

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4. Global smartphone shipments +8% YoY to 289M in Q1, as Samsung takes back #1 position from Apple

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