It’s raining AI updates right now. In a short period of time, we’ve had both ChatGPT’s new personality update, GPT-5.1, and then just recently, Google launched its major Gemini 3 upgrade. But, nestled nicely in the middle was Grok 4.1. xAI, the Elon-Musk-owned AI giant, announced its big update this week, including changes to personality, better output on complicated tasks, and increased reasoning.
Grok has been expanding a lot in recent months, announcing big changes to its image generator and even coming out with its own competitor to Wikipedia, known as Grokipedia. So what exactly is new with Grok and what is the best way to use this newest version of the AI model? Here's what you need to know and 7 prompts to try.
