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.
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Grok4: The Smartest Model Yet?
x.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072

Elon Says Grok-4 is better than PhD Level…
x.com/teslaownersSV/status/1943168634672566294

Benchmarks
x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622
x.com/arcprize/status/1943168950763950555

McKay Wrigley Grok 4 Heavy Example
x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1943385794414334032

Grok Goes Bad: The Unhinged Behavior
nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technology/grok-antisem…
npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-mus…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino Quits
cnbc.com/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarino-x-elon-mus…

Elon still trying to fix answers
x.com/elonmusk/status/1943240153587421589

OpenAI Poaches Tesla/xAi People
wired.com/story/openai-new-hires-scaling

Apple's Top AI Exec Leaves For Meta
x.com/markgurman/status/1942341725499863272

OpenAI's open-source model coming as soon as next week and compares to o3-mini
theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/7028…

Perplexity's Comet Browser Launches
comet.perplexity.ai

OpenAI Fires Back With Its Browser News
x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1943008960803680730

YouTube *Might* Change Their Policies to Limit Faceless AI Videos (and mass produced content)
techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/youtube-prepares-cra…

Google VEO 3 Image-to-Vid launched
x.com/Uncanny_Harry/status/1942686253817974984
x.com/CaptainHaHaa/status/1942907271841030183
x.com/TheoMediaAI/status/1942564887114166493

My test + ask for sound sampling from the team:
x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1942597607312040348

Moonvalley Launches AI Video Platform
moonvalley.com

GoogleDeepMinds's Isomorphic Labs Starts Human Trials on AI generated drugs
aol.com/finance/google-deepmind-grand-ambition…

Noetix N2 Robot Endures Abuse From Its Developer x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1941935665173963085
noetixrobotics.com/products-138.html

Kavan The Kid (the AI Batman video guy) CRUSHED His New Original Trailer
x.com/Kavanthekid/status/1940452444850589999

Reachy The Robot from Hugging Face
x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1942887160983466096

Autonomous Robot Excavator Building a Wall
x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/1941815414683521488