SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI unveiled the updated Grok-3 model, showcasing a version of the chatbot technology that the billionaire has said is the “smartest AI on Earth.” Across math, science, and coding benchmarks, Grok-3 beats Alphabet Inc.’s Google Gemini, DeepSeek’s V3 model, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the company said via a live stream on Monday.
Grok-3 has “more than 10 times” the computing power of its predecessor and completed pre-training in early January, Musk said in a presentation alongside three of xAI’s engineers. “We’re continually improving the models every day, and literally within 24 hours, you’ll see improvements,” Musk stated.
The company introduced a new smart search engine called DeepSearch with Grok-3. DeepSearch is a reasoning chatbot that expresses its process of understanding a query and how it plans its response. The demonstration showed that it includes options for research, brainstorming, and data analysis.
Grok-3 is rolling out to Premium+ subscribers on X immediately. The company is starting a new subscription called SuperGrok for the Grok mobile app and Grok.com website. The new chatbot appears to put Grok ahead of OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT and ramps up an increasingly bitter rivalry between the two companies.
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