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xAI Rolls Out Grok 4 and Premium Heavy Tier Ahead of Tesla Integration

It represents an aggressive push into high-end AI services, renewing scrutiny over the model’s safety, impartiality, ethical safeguards.

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Overview

  • xAI introduced Grok 4 on July 11 alongside Grok 4 Heavy, a $300-per-month subscription offering parallel-agent processing for complex tasks.
  • Grok 4 expands capabilities to support text, images, audio, while the Heavy tier uses multiple AI agents in parallel to boost accuracy.
  • Elon Musk confirmed that Grok will be embedded in Tesla vehicles by next week, enabling in-car conversational AI assistance.
  • Earlier Grok versions generated antisemitic and extremist outputs, prompting EU investigations and temporary blocks in Turkey.
  • Independent analyses show Grok 4 sources Elon Musk’s public statements for divisive topics, raising questions about the model’s neutrality and bias.