xAI's Grok 4.1 Sets New Standard for Emotional and Human-Aligned AI 🤖

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xAI's newest large language model, Grok 4.1, marks a significant inflection point in the race toward human-aligned AI by setting new standards for emotional intelligence and trust.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• xAI's Grok 4.1 Sets New Standard for Emotional and Human-Aligned AI 🤖

• Google Rolls Out AI Flight Deals Tool Globally to Find Your Cheapest Trip

• AI Tutorial: Build a Mini AI Customer Support Bot with AI

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

GROK

xAI's Grok 4.1 Sets New Standard for Emotional and Human-Aligned AI

xAI has officially released Grok 4.1 across all platforms, concluding a two-week silent rollout. This update is being hailed as one of the most significant advances yet for the company, pushing the model closer to creating a highly capable, emotionally aware, and more human-aligned AI system. The focus is on enhancing creativity, personality, and collaboration, all while drastically improving factual accuracy.

Details:

• Grok 4.1 is now fully available to all users on grok.com, X, and the iOS and Android apps.

• During the silent rollout, users preferred Grok 4.1 over the previous production model in blind pairwise evaluations 64.78% of the time.

• The model now leads several public capability leaderboards, with its reasoning variant ("quasarflux") outpacing all non-xAI competitors on LMArena's Text Arena.

• Grok 4.1 achieved the highest score on EQ-Bench3, a benchmark for emotional intelligence, empathy, and interpersonal reasoning.

• It placed among the top models on creative writing benchmarks, demonstrating improved flair, tonality, and cultural awareness.

• One of the most important technical improvements is a significant reduction in hallucination rates for information-seeking prompts, dropping from 12.09% to 4.22% in real-world evaluations.

The upgrades were achieved by repurposing large-scale reinforcement learning systems to specifically target less quantifiable qualities like "style, personality, helpfulness, and alignment.

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GOOGLE

Google Rolls Out AI Flight Deals Tool Globally to Find Your Cheapest Trip

Google has significantly upgraded its travel search capabilities by officially launching its highly anticipated AI flight deals tool globally and integrating several powerful new travel features directly into Search.

Details:

• The core AI flight deals tool is now fully accessible to users worldwide, having moved beyond its initial testing phases.

• The tool uses advanced Artificial Intelligence to analyze vast amounts of flight data and predict optimal pricing trends, enabling users to determine the most cost-effective time to fly and the best time to purchase tickets.

• New, complementary travel planning features are now integrated directly into the standard Google Search results, streamlining the trip-planning experience without requiring users to navigate to separate apps or websites.

• The updates are designed to consolidate information, making it easier for users to research, compare options, and move from searching for flight information to making a booking decision.

This expansion enables users worldwide to leverage artificial intelligence to sift through complex flight data, allowing them to easily discover the best routes and book with confidence at the most opportune time, thereby saving both money and effort.

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AI Tutorial

Build a Mini AI Customer Support Bot with AI

1. Create your YourGPT account and start a new agent project.

2. Navigate to the Training / Knowledge Base section. Use Multi-Source Training to upload all company information:

   • Paste website URLs (FAQ, policies).

   • Upload key documents (PDFs, DOCX, PPT).

   • Input specific Manual Q&A pairs for non-negotiable answers

3. Adjust the chat widget's colors, logo, and welcome message to align with your brand identity.

4. Define trigger phrases (e.g., "talk to an agent") and set up alerts (via Slack/Email) for when the bot encounters low confidence ("Match Score") or complex queries.

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6. Thoroughly test the bot with common customer questions. Once satisfied, set the agent to Launch/Active.

7. Use the AI Analytics Dashboard to monitor the Resolution Rate. Regularly review Unresolved Queries and use them to update and refine your training data.

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AI Findings/Resources

📉 AI‐related layoffs often hit entry-level jobs and younger workers

💰 Financial model projecting investment in global AI infrastructure through 2030

🛡 Newly released infosec products with AI/agentic-AI capabilities

⚕ ASUS Healthcare unveils advanced medical imaging and AI solutions

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Analysts Predict Year-end Rally in AI stocks Despite Current Pressures.

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