🧠 LTM #54 - Grok 2.0 Released with IMAGE Generations

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xAI Release Grok 2.0 Beta 🧠

• xAI has launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta on the 𝕏 platform, offering improved reasoning and multimodal capabilities, with image generation now available for Premium and Premium+ users.

• Grok-2 outperforms leading AI models like GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in various academic benchmarks, including reasoning, coding, and vision-based tasks, demonstrating significant advancements over Grok-1.5.

• Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini will be available later this month through a new enterprise API, featuring low-latency global access, enhanced security, and advanced billing analytics for developers.

Midjourney Launches New Web Editor 🎑

• Midjourney introduced their new web editor, unifying editing tools like inpainting and outpainting, and featuring a precise virtual brush, imroving user control over image modifications.

• Midjourney now syncs images and messages between its web platform and Discord channels, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration across both platforms.

• All users who have created at least 10 images can now access the web editor directly on Midjourney's website, moving away from the Discord-based workflow for a more intuitive experience.

Anthropic Release Prompt Caching 📝

• Anthropic has released prompt caching, reducing costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85%. Prompt Caching allows developers to quickly cache frequently used context calls between APIs. This allows users to provide Claude with more background knowledge and example outputs.

• Effective for scenarios requiring repeated context use, such as conversational agents, coding Q&A, agentic searches, and large knowledge base interactions, enhancing performance and efficiency across various applications.

• Currently in public beta, prompt caching is available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku, with support for Claude 3 Opus coming soon, offering improved efficiency for developers.

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Media
Grok 2.0 Image Generations

Following the Release of xAIs Grok 2.0, users quicky realised there are very few Guardrails preventing image generations. This has led to Social Media being flooded with likeness of Politicians and Elon himself in a number of different ways - These are a few PG-rated generations (😂) to show the capabilities of Grok 2.0

1.) Walking on Water

2.) The Thinker (After Hours)

3.) Super Musk !

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