Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, on Monday, along with new capabilities in the Grok app for iOS and the web.
Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on Musk’s social network, X. Grok 3, which has been in development for several months, was optimistically slated for release in 2024, but missed that deadline.
Monday’s is an ambitious launch.
xAI has been using an enormous data center in Memphis containing around 200,000 GPUs to train Grok 3. In a post on X, Musk claimed Grok 3 was developed with “10x” (or so) more computing power than its predecessor, Grok 2, using an expanded training set that includes filings from court cases — and more.
“Grok 3 is an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2,” Musk said during a live-streamed presentation on Monday. “[It’s a] maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.”