Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI showed off its updated Grok-3 model, a version of the chatbot technology that the billionaire says is the "smartest AI on Earth."
In a variety of math, science and coding benchmarks, Grok-3 beat Alphabet's Google Gemini, DeepSeek's V3 model, Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT-4o, the company said in a livestream on Monday (Feb. 17). 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 with three xAI engineers.
"We're constantly improving the model every day, and literally within 24 hours, you'll see improvements," Musk said.
The company introduced a new intelligent search engine with Grok-3, called DeepSearch. DeepSearch is a reasoning chatbot that expresses its process in understanding questions and how to plan its responses. DeepSearch includes options for research, brainstorming, and data analysis, the demonstration showed. Musk’s team also said it intends to release the voice-based chatbot “as soon as possible.”
Grok-3 will launch soon for Premium+ subscribers on X. The company is starting a new subscription called SuperGrok for the bot’s mobile app and Grok.com website. xAI plans to open-source earlier versions of its Grok models once the latest ones are fully mature, with Musk saying he expects the transition to be complete for Grok-3 within a few months.
Musk’s performance claims, which have not been independently verified, escalate an increasingly fierce rivalry between his startup and OpenAI. He launched xAI in 2023 as an alternative to ChatGPT maker, which has been publicly criticized for its plans to restructure into a for-profit business.
The billionaire has filed two lawsuits against OpenAI for allegedly deviating from its founding principles and offered to buy OpenAI’s for-profit division for $97.4 billion in an offer that was rejected last week. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman characterized the offer as a tactic to “slow us down.” Musk was involved in founding OpenAI but has been critical of the company since leaving its board in 2018.
Leading AI companies such as OpenAI and xAI have been raising money rapidly at soaring valuations. Musk’s xAI is in talks to raise about $10 billion in a funding round that would value the company at about $75 billion, Bloomberg News reported last week. The company was last valued at about $51 billion,according to data collected by PitchBook.
OpenAI is in talks to raise as much as $40 billion in a round that would push its valuation to $300 billion.
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