Elon Musk’s Grok 4: The New Benchmark for AI, Achieving PhD-Level Academic Mastery

July 10, 2025 – In a live event today, Elon Musk unveiled Grok 4, asserting it as the world’s most advanced AI model, with academic problem-solving capabilities on par with doctoral-level expertise. The 53-minute presentation showcased Grok 4’s multimodal capabilities, lightning-fast reasoning, and other innovative features.

According to official benchmarks, Grok 4 has delivered impressive results, positioning itself to compete head-to-head with leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic in areas like real-time processing, reasoning, and advanced visual understanding.

Built on xAI’s Colossus supercomputer, Grok 4 boasts deep reasoning abilities, promising enhanced logical analysis and text generation. It also features natural-sounding human speech, real-time internet access, and a sharp grasp of internet culture—including memes, slang, and humor.

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis reveals Grok 4’s intelligence score of 73, surpassing competitors like OpenAI’s o3 (70), Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro (70), Deepseek R1-0528 (68), and Anthropic’s Claude 4 Opus (64).

As a reasoning-focused model, Grok 4 will be available via xAI’s API. Pricing is set at 3permillioninputtokensand15 per million output tokens, offering a competitive option in the AI market.

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