Grok 4 is Nearing AGI But... Can Elon Get Out Of The Way?

Grok 4 from xAI just aced “Humanity’s Last Exam” benchmarks while Grok 3 had a catastrophic public meltdown. What does this mean for the future of AI and Elon Musk’s credibility? And, in other AI news, OpenAI’s GPT-5 is rumored to land next week along with a new open-source reasoning model, Google’s DeepMind launches AI-designed drugs into human trials, and Perplexity’s new AI browser Comet sparks OpenAI’s plan to crush Chrome. PLUS YouTube cracks down on AI-generated spam while updating image-to-video in VEO 3, Moon Valley releases an “ethical” AI video platform, and why you should probably stop kicking robots. AI IS GETTING SMARTER...BUT WE STILL CONTROL THE TREATS. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // Grok4: The Smartest Model Yet? https://x.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072 Elon Says Grok-4 is better than PhD Level… https://x.com/teslaownersSV/status/1943168634672566294 Benchmarks https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622 https://x.com/arcprize/status/1943168950763950555 McKay Wrigley Grok 4 Heavy Example https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1943385794414334032 Grok Goes Bad: The Unhinged Behavior https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technology/grok-antisemitism-ai-x.html https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content X CEO Linda Yaccarino Quits https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarino-x-elon-musk.html Elon still trying to fix answers https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1943240153587421589 OpenAI Poaches Tesla/xAi People https://www.wired.com/story/openai-new-hires-scaling/ Apple’s Top AI Exec Leaves For Meta https://x.com/markgurman/status/1942341725499863272 OpenAI’s open-source model coming as soon as next week and compares to o3-mini https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/702848/openai-open-language-model-o3-mini-notepad Perplexity’s Comet Browser Launches https://comet.perplexity.ai/ OpenAI Fires Back With Its Browser News https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1943008960803680730 YouTube *Might* Change Their Policies to Limit Faceless AI Videos (and mass produced content) https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/youtube-prepares-crackdown-on-mass-produced-and-repetitive-videos-as-concern-over-ai-slop-grows/ Google VEO 3 Image-to-Vid launched https://x.com/Uncanny_Harry/status/1942686253817974984 https://x.com/CaptainHaHaa/status/1942907271841030183 https://x.com/TheoMediaAI/status/1942564887114166493 My test + ask for sound sampling from the team: https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1942597607312040348 Moonvalley Launches AI Video Platform https://www.moonvalley.com/ GoogleDeepMinds’s Isomorphic Labs Starts Human Trials on AI generated drugs https://www.aol.com/finance/google-deepmind-grand-ambitions-cure-130000934.html?utm_source=perplexity&guccounter=1 Noetix N2 Robot Endures Abuse From Its Developer https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1941935665173963085 https://noetixrobotics.com/products-138.html Kavan The Kid (the AI Batman video guy) CRUSHED His New Original Trailer https://x.com/Kavanthekid/status/1940452444850589999 Reachy The Robot from Hugging Face https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1942887160983466096 Autonomous Robot Excavator Building a Wall https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/1941815414683521488