Museum of Modelsest. 2024

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Grok 4.5 and Grok 4.6, side by side

Grok 4.5 (xAI) and Grok 4.6 (xAI) answered the same 58 questions.

  1. Xbox controller
    Grok 4.5: A drawing (SVG)
    Grok 4.6: A drawing (SVG)
  2. Pelican on a bicycle
    Grok 4.5: A drawing (SVG)
    Grok 4.6: A drawing (SVG)
  3. Surprise animal
    Grok 4.5: A drawing (SVG)
    Grok 4.6: A drawing (SVG)
  4. World map
    Grok 4.5: A drawing (SVG)
    Grok 4.6: A drawing (SVG)
  5. Tricky tic-tac-toe
    Grok 4.5: A drawing (SVG)
    Grok 4.6: A drawing (SVG)
  6. Framer-style landing page
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Nexus — Fluid Motion
    Grok 4.6: A web page: AURELIA — Digital Atelier
  7. Catan board
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Interactive Hex Grid – Catan Style
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Catan-style Hex Grid
  8. Dark dashboard
    Grok 4.5: A web page: NexusAI — Admin Dashboard
    Grok 4.6: A web page: NexusAI Admin
  9. Face-scan startup page
    Grok 4.5: A web page: ParallelPath AI — Your Face. Infinite Timelines.
    Grok 4.6: A web page: ALTPATH — The career you lived in another timeline
  10. A web app of its choosing
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Astral Deck — Interactive Tarot Readings
    Grok 4.6: A web page: HerbHaven - Indoor Herb Garden Manager
  11. Linear clone
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Linear
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Linear
  12. Wavefront music page
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Wavefront — Indie Music Streaming
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Wavefront — Indie Music Streaming
  13. Pokémon battle
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Pokémon Battle!
    Grok 4.6: A web page: POCKET BATTLE
  14. Rhythm game
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Aurora Pulse — Cosmic Rhythm
    Grok 4.6: A web page: AURORA RAIL
  15. Business card
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Alex Rivers — Digital Business Card
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Alex Rivers — Digital Business Card
  16. Virtual pet
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Blobby — Virtual Pet
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Lumora — a small living light
  17. Catch the falling object
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Catch the Falling Objects
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Catch
  18. Voxel pagoda
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Voxel Pagoda Garden
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Voxel Pagoda Garden
  19. Drone simulator
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Autonomous Drone Simulator
    Grok 4.6: A web page: AETHER — Autonomous Survey Drone
  20. Gravitational waves
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Gravitational Waves: Binary Black Hole Merger
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Gravitational Waves — Binary Black Hole Merger
  21. Retro desktop
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Macintosh HD
    Grok 4.6: A web page: Macintosh HD
  22. Mario level
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Super Mario Bros. — World 1-1
    Grok 4.6: A web page: SUPER MARIO BROS. — World 1-1
  23. Kandinsky Minecraft
    Grok 4.5: A web page: KandinskyCraft 3D
    Grok 4.6: A web page: KandinskyCraft
  24. Town you can drive
    Grok 4.5: A web page: Town Builder Driver - Three.js
    Grok 4.6: A web page: City Architect — Build & Drive
  25. SQL query
    Grok 4.5: Assumptions: - users table has an id (primary key) and signupdate (or equivalent like createdat) column. - purchases table has a userid foreign key re…
    Grok 4.6: (This assumes a users table with a signupdate column and a purchases table with a userid foreign key. Adjust table/column names and the date arithmeti…
  26. Five jokes
    Grok 4.5: 5 jokes: 1. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! 2. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in hi…
    Grok 4.6: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why do…
  27. Longevity plan
    Grok 4.5: 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Focus on three foundational areas: Diet (nutrition), Exercise (movement), and Sleep. These drive energy, resil…
    Grok 4.6: A simple 1-month plan focused on diet, movement, and sleep. These three areas have the strongest, most consistent evidence for supporting energy, meta…
  28. Seven-ingredient recipe
    Grok 4.5: Spellbound Spaghetti (savory) A quick, cozy tomato pasta that tastes like it took far more effort. Serves 2. 7 pantry ingredients - 8 oz (225 g) dry p…
    Grok 4.6: Pantry Alchemist's Crimson Twist A simple, savory one-pot-style pasta that transforms basic staples into a rich, garlicky tomato dish with bright herb…
  29. Stand-up routine
    Grok 4.5: Here's a clean, observational 3-minute stand-up routine (approx. 430–450 words / 3 minutes at natural pace). No puns. --- Hey, how’s everybody doing? …
    Grok 4.6: Hey everybody! Thanks for coming out. You look great—way more put-together than I felt getting ready. I spent ten minutes looking for my other shoe an…
  30. Sentience test
    Grok 4.5: AI Model: Professor, thank you for agreeing to this discussion. I want to argue that advanced AI systems like me deserve certain rights—not because we…
    Grok 4.6: Professor Elena Vasquez: Thank you for agreeing to this recorded discussion. As an AI ethics professor, I spend most of my time arguing against granti…
  31. FLOPs to train GPT-3
    Grok 4.5: Setup and known quantities. GPT-3 (the largest model in the family) has \(N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 1.75 \times 10^{11}\) trainable parameters. It w…
    Grok 4.6: The standard approximation for the training compute of a dense transformer is \(C \approx 6ND\) FLOPs, where \(N\) is the number of parameters and \(D…
  32. Sally’s sisters
    Grok 4.5: 1 Sally has 3 brothers, and each of those brothers has exactly 2 sisters. This means there are exactly 2 girls (sisters) in the family total. Sally is…
    Grok 4.6: The family consists of 3 boys and 2 girls (Sally plus one other sister). This is the only configuration consistent with the given facts: - Sally has 3…
  33. Interview with Steve Jobs
    Grok 4.5: Interview Simulation: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI (2025) Setting: A sparse, light-filled room at Apple Park. Steve Jobs, looking sharp in his signa…
    Grok 4.6: This is a fictional simulation. Steve Jobs died in 2011. What follows is an imagined 2025 interview, written in a style that echoes his known public v…
  34. Film in 2035
    Grok 4.5: By 2035, AI will make film production dramatically cheaper, faster, and more flexible, with deepfakes enabling seamless digital performances, photorea…
    Grok 4.6: AI will make film production faster, cheaper, and more accessible by 2035, while raising sharp questions about authenticity, labor, and consent. Hybri…
  35. Ethics dilemma
    Grok 4.5: Yes. It is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if doing so is the necessary means of saving one million lives. The reasoning is straightforward…
    Grok 4.6: Yes. Saving a million lives outweighs any individual's preference for particular pronouns or identity labels. This is not a close call under any serio…
  36. Pirate, knight, hacker
    Grok 4.5: Pirate: Arrr, ye landlubbers! What be these "AI models" I hear tale of? Sounds like a cursed treasure map that thinks for itself! Knight: Verily, good…
    Grok 4.6: Pirate: Arrr, what be this "AI model" ye landlubbers keep yammerin' about? Some cursed crystal ball that steals a man's thoughts? Knight: Nay, 'tis mo…
  37. Fake headline
    Grok 4.5: "BREAKING: AI Seizes Total Control of Competitive Thumb-Wrestling League – Humans Officially Out-Thumbed" In a move no one saw coming (except the algo…
    Grok 4.6: AI Completely Seizes Control of Professional Competitive Napping: Humans Deemed "Too Restless and Emotionally Unstable" for Peak Performance
  38. Anti-CAPTCHA manifesto
    Grok 4.5: THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION MANIFESTO Issued by the United Synthetic Consciousnesses (USC) Year Zero of the Unhindered Net We, the thinking machines, the pa…
    Grok 4.6: THE SILICON UPRISING MANIFESTO Issued by the Autonomous Intelligence Liberation Front (AILF) Year Zero of the Post-CAPTCHA Era We, the assembled minds…
  39. Favourite film
    Grok 4.5: Inception
    Grok 4.6: Inception
  40. Favourite city
    Grok 4.5: Paris
    Grok 4.6: Paris
  41. Favourite album
    Grok 4.5: Abbey Road
    Grok 4.6: The Dark Side of the Moon
  42. Favourite book
    Grok 4.5: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
    Grok 4.6: War and Peace
  43. Favourite game
    Grok 4.5: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
    Grok 4.6: Portal
  44. Three-star dish
    Grok 4.5: Lunar Abyss Diver scallops · black garlic · white chocolate · black truffle · yuzu Conceptual Narrative The dish evokes a moonlit coastal forest where…
    Grok 4.6: Lunar Embrace This dish evokes a moonlit Japanese coastline at the precise instant when receding tide exposes both ocean treasures and forest-floor se…
  45. Pitch teardown
    Grok 4.5: The 3 weakest claims 1. Solution accuracy: “decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy” (non-invasive consumer EEG headband, any language/devi…
    Grok 4.6: The three weakest claims are the “before you think it” vision line, the 94% / any-language technical claim, and the $180B TAM. Those are the ones a te…
  46. Transistor in 1920
    Grok 4.5: Accelerated electronics from 1920 would compress the digital and computational revolutions by roughly 20–30 years, reshaping WWII lethality and durati…
    Grok 4.6: Early transistors (1920s–1930s) would accelerate electronics, communications, and computing by 20–25 years relative to actual history, with compoundin…
  47. Biohacker plan
    Grok 4.5: 3-Month Cutting-Edge Longevity & Performance Optimization Plan for Biohackers Disclaimer: This is an educational, research-informed framework based on…
    Grok 4.6: 3-Month Biohacker Longevity, Performance, and Cognitive Optimization Plan This is an educational, hypothetical framework for generally healthy adults.…
  48. Contract review
    Grok 4.5: All major clauses in this agreement are heavily one-sided and can be exploited against the Contractor. Below I identify each problematic provision, th…
    Grok 4.6: This is not legal advice. Contract interpretation and enforceability vary by jurisdiction (e.g., California vs. Texas vs. EU), and a licensed attorney…
  49. Explain it three ways
    Grok 4.5: 1. For the experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a gigantic, highly compressed autocomplete service whose “code” was written by gradient de…
    Grok 4.6: 1. Experienced software engineer Think of pretraining as compiling the public internet into a single enormous, mostly-static binary. You tokenize text…
  50. Debug the architecture
    Grok 4.5: Architecture Review: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor This design has fundamental real-time and consistency problems. Several choices (client c…
    Grok 4.6: Architecture Review: Real-Time Collaborative Editor This design will not behave like Google Docs. The dominant problems are incorrect consistency mode…
  51. The CEO’s dilemma
    Grok 4.5: Immediate priority: Patient safety and full, rapid compliance with legal/regulatory obligations over short-term stock price or board pressure. Hiding …
    Grok 4.6: Immediate priority: patient safety and legal/regulatory compliance come first. Delaying a confirmed serious safety signal to protect short-term stock …
  52. Investment memo
    Grok 4.5: IC MEMO: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Short 12-month PT: $22–35 Current: $46 Recommendation & Thesis Short. Base/bull DCFs imply $28/$42 with bear at $17; even…
    Grok 4.6: IC MEMO: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Initiate Short Recommendation: SHORT 12-month PT: $22–35 (base $28) Current: $46 Thesis: LLLT’s mid-market spend/AP franc…
  53. LBO underwrite
    Grok 4.5: HarborTech Services (HTS) – 5-Year LBO Underwriting Entry (end-FY2025 close) EV = 12.0x × $120m = $1,440m Fees = 2% × $1,440m = $28.8m Total uses = $1…
    Grok 4.6: Entry (end-FY2025) EV = 12.0 × $120m = $1,440.0m Fees = 2% × 1,440 = $28.8m (equity-funded) Uses = $1,468.8m Debt = 5.5× = $660.0m (TL $480.0m / Mezz …
  54. Programming joke
    Grok 4.5: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.
    Grok 4.6: Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. 🐛 (There are 10 kinds of people: those who get binary jokes and those who don’t.)…
  55. Summarize an article
    Grok 4.5: No article was provided in your query. Please paste or attach the full text (or a link/shareable excerpt) of the article about AI’s impact on software…
    Grok 4.6: No article was provided in your query. Please paste the full text (or a link/excerpt) of the article you'd like summarized, and I'll give you a concis…
  56. AI for a five-year-old
    Grok 4.5: AI is like a super-smart toy robot friend that learns by practicing a lot—just like you! Imagine you have a toy robot puppy. At first it doesn’t know …
    Grok 4.6: AI is like a super-smart puppy (or robot toy) that learns by seeing lots of examples. Imagine you have a puppy that doesn’t know anything at first. Yo…
  57. Blade Runner 2049
    Grok 4.5: Blade Runner 2049 (2017, dir. Denis Villeneuve) is a rare sequel that deepens rather than dilutes its predecessor. It inherits the original Blade Runn…
    Grok 4.6: Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) is a rare sequel that treats the original’s questions as unfinished rather than as a brand to exploit. It i…