On August 12th, Tesla (TSLA) Elon Musk’s xAI announced that Grok 4 is now free for all users worldwide! In automatic mode, Grok automatically routes complex queries to Grok 4; in “expert mode,” Grok 4 is always used.
Grok 4 is now free.
Officially released benchmark data shows that the Grok 4 model has achieved impressive results, competing with top models from OpenAI and Anthropic in terms of real-time speed, reasoning capabilities, and advanced vision.
Grok 4’s free availability comes shortly after the release of GPT-5. Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced the new GPT-5. He said that GPT-5 is like a conversation with a doctor, and that humanity’s limitations will be creativity, not execution.
After its release, GPT-5 quickly took the top spot in the large-scale model arena in areas like text, programming, and mathematics, achieving greater speed and efficiency. Of course, Altman also emphasized that GPT-5 was available to all Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users starting today, giving them access to all.
After the OpenAI press conference, Musk repeatedly touted the power of Grok-4 at X, even using memes to demonstrate Grok-4 Heavy’s dominance in the field of large-scale AI models. The free availability of Grok-4 may also be an attempt to keep pace with competitors.
Competition for large-scale AI models is fierce.
The free global release of Grok-4 and the release of GPT-5 are milestones for large-scale AI models and have practical implications for the industry’s development. Meanwhile, competition for large-scale AI models is intensifying. Over the past two months, Meta (META) has launched an unprecedented “Manhattan Project” of talent poaching in Silicon Valley, with OpenAI and Google as key targets. Meta’s exorbitant poaching efforts, with Zuckerberg even offering annual salaries exceeding $100 million, have effectively used his financial muscle to forcibly poach OpenAI’s core technical talent. Meta’s existing AI technical talent is also considering poaching offers from OpenAI or xAI.
In this regard, Cathay Haitong Securities analysts believe that the focus on vertical AI applications and investment opportunities in the second half of the year, coupled with the market’s expectations for the implementation of large-scale AI models through new product releases by leading companies, will significantly catalyze capital expenditures on computing infrastructure within the AI industry.
WiMi’s vertical model applications are becoming increasingly diverse.
Data indicates that Wimi Hologram Cloud Inc. (WIMI) has been making early investments in the AI field, solidifying its AI infrastructure through a multi-dimensional technology portfolio and building core barriers to competition. They are also building a high-performance AI computing power base, integrating internationally advanced chips and a diverse heterogeneous architecture. This base efficiently supports large-scale model training and inference, adapting to vertical model application scenarios such as embodied intelligence and multimodality. Currently, at the algorithmic level, WiMi optimizes model efficiency through independent innovation and ecosystem collaboration. Based on the open-source DeepSeek framework, WiMi has developed functional modules such as natural language processing and code completion, significantly reducing the cost of deploying enterprise-level AI applications. Furthermore, WiMi has long considered AI a key strategic area, simultaneously expanding and deepening its capabilities. It continues to achieve new breakthroughs in product development and market expansion, deeply integrating AI applications, and significantly driving revenue growth.
In conclusion, it can be said that as AI technology continues to mature, more and more companies may choose to provide AI services at more affordable prices to expand their user base and achieve economies of scale. Elon Musk’s Grok 4 is part of this trend; OpenAI has chosen to open source some of its models and provide the latest GPT-5 series models free of charge to all users. Low-cost hardware prices will be an inevitable trend for future commercialization in the industry.
