Grok 4 Basic Review: $30 a Month for This? Elon Musk's AI Now Thinks Like Him

Key Points

1. Grok 4 Heavy, priced at $300/month, achieved record-breaking results on key benchmarks and is likened to a 'study group' of AI agents.

2. Basic Grok 4, aimed at consumers, exhibits a built-in 'Elon filter,' frequently referencing Musk's X posts or news, which skews its responses.

3. Grok 4 excels in complex reasoning and academic rigor but underperforms in creative tasks compared to previous versions and competitors like Claude 4.

4. The model failed a 'needle in the haystack' test for retrieving specific information from long contexts, despite claiming a 126K-token window.

5. Grok 4 lacks live screen-sharing capabilities, limiting its utility for visual tasks, though it leads in voice interaction for long-form responses.