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I'm a little embarrassed to say that I haven't really tried Grok before, despite starting to use (paid) ChatGPT for work, and regularly testing new (free) ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini versions on my own personal benchmark math questions. I should rectify that. On my first try, the free version took nearly 5 minutes thinking, which I was hoping was a good sign - paid ChatGPT will take 3 minutes to answer something that free ChatGPT answers instantly, but the paid answer will be correct and well-sourced or at worst "I don't know" where the free answer will be nonsense that it proceeds to try to gaslight me about if I question it. But the Grok answer after 5 minutes made a sign error of the sort that the other free LLMs stopped falling for several months ago, and when notified it started in on the gaslighting.
Grok's... weird, performance-wise, especially compared to ChatGPT. It (and especially 4) are heavy thinkers, and from local use with Qwen I'd expect it to have a bigger beneficial impact, but there's something weird going on with whatever RAG-like they're using that makes it go wonky at times.
It's very prone to math errors, even by the low standards of LLMs, both 3 (free) and 4 (paid) still hallucinate and gaslight pretty badly, especially when you get even slightly off the beaten path (compare this to this on the IMU implementation: Viture does actually hide their documentation in a bad pdf, so it's not surprising that neither could find it, but it is disappointing that Grok hallucinates a non-existent class).
On the other hand, Grok's been surprisingly good at handling 'real'-world questions, where others at best seem to give okay answers. There's a risk of landmines because it does still hallucinate and it's (ime) more persuasive than ChatGPT or Claude when it does, and it doesn't stop you when you ask a stupid question (ie, dollar/GB is a really misleading metric for almost all use cases), but my experience is that you need to keep that in mind for pretty much every LLM. It's been a much stronger tool for helping teach, if a bit verbose, even for coding questions.
I dunno if I'll stick with it, and especially for coding-focused use cases I can't really recommend it. But if you don't mind how verbose it gets, there are some types of questions it does better.
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