Grok just got vision: xAI announces Grok-1.5V preview
xAI recently announced the preview availability of Grok-1.5V, its first multimodal foundation model. Grok-1.5V features competitive performance in visual information processing tasks and is the first model diving into real-world spatial understanding.
Grok-1.5V is xAI's first multimodal foundation model. Grok-1.5V shares its predecessors' text capabilities and complements them with a strong visual information processing capacity enabling the model to extract data from sources including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. To evaluate Grok-1.5V, the research team at xAI developed the RealWorldQA, which measures real-world spatial understanding by asking questions that involve comparing several objects in a picture, describing an object's position, or determining true size by considering perspective. The RealWorldQA benchmark was released under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license in parallel with the Grok-1.5V preview announcement. The RealWorldQA contains 700 anonymized pictures taken from various real-world sources, including vehicles, annotated with easily verifiable question-answer pairs. Grok-1.5V will be available to early testers and existing Grok users shortly, as xAI plans to continue its delve into multimodal AI as part of its journey toward AGI.
Ellie Ramirez-Camara is the News Editor at Data Phoenix, where she writes the daily AI newsdesk — covering model releases, research, funding rounds, and policy across the AI and machine-learning industry. She tracks announcements from labs and startups alike and distills them into clear, source-linked reporting for practitioners.
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