What about Grok, are they catching up?

I've only tried Grok Code Fast 1, so I can't speak for any of the other models.

In my experience, Grok is very fast and very cheap, but only moderately intelligent. It isn't stupid, but it rarely does anything that impresses me. The reason it's a useful model is that it is very, very fast (~90 tokens per second) and is very competitively priced.

You should try cerebras with qwen. 2000 tokens/sec. It’s like chatting with the future usually- just an instant response.

There is also code-supernova, which is in-preview improved version of grok-code-fast-1. 1M context window. It's useful, but I'm still not sure how much better than grok-code-fast-1. You can get free access to it via a few providers, e.g. opencode.

Grok 4 is extremely capable, but for everyday chatting, Grok kinda sucks since it keeps repeating what you told it, and saying the current timestamp for some reason. ChatGPT is much better with its post training and prompt I feel like.

Grok has been free for over a month now and for me it has certainly proven itself competent at most tasks that you would otherwise have to pay for with Claude, ChatGPT, etc.

Everyone has a gimmick these days. If abos are that sensitive, let them not have access to solutions—no need to worry about them.

The project presumably is a portmanteau of "audio book generator".

I agree that the project need not be renamed to remove the single syllable that may be an obscure slur, especially since every syllable may be an obscure slur in some language and you can't expect somebody to learn them all just to avoid them.

But there was no need to use that syllable as a slur.

Having zero cultural sensitivity like this is incredibly embarrassing

Somehow you have to login now, to use it. It wasn't like this a few weeks ago...

That is not my experience, maybe your IP is flagged as hammering their site?

Oh, I wasn't aware of this. But how can you hammer a calculator? Yes, I have used it like 50 times, checking how big would be a Q4, or smaller model with different batch sizes and concurrent users. Do you think it is a heavy calculation?

Exactly. I do not remember this site being so delusional. Everyday it is becoming more an example of a failed institution. This is how mind viruses work.