xAI has added new memory capacity to its Grok chatbot, which will enable Grok to recall elements of your previous interactions with the bot, in order to customize future responses.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreOpenAI launched two groundbreaking AI models today that can reason with images and use tools independently, representing what experts call a step change in artificial intelligence capabilities.The San Francisco-based company introduced o3 and o4-mini, the latest in its “o-series” of reasoning models, which it claims are its most intelligent and capable models to date. These systems can integrate images directly into their reasoning process, search the web, run code, analyze files, and even generate images within a single task flow.“There are some models that feel like a qualitative step into the future. GPT-4 was one of those. Today is also going to be one of those days,” said Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, during a press conference announcing the release. “These are the first models where top scientists tell us they produce legitimately good and useful novel ideas.”How OpenAI’s new models ‘think with images’ to transform visual problem-solvingThe most striking feature of these new models is their ability to “think with images” — not just see them, but manipulate and reason about them as part of their problem-solving process.“They don’t just see an image — they think with it,” OpenAI said in a statement sent to VentureBeat

xAI has introduced Grok-3-Mini-Fast-Beta, a streamlined version of the renowned Grok-3 model.