Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, we are getting closer and closer and closer to SkyNet. As if DeepSeek didn’t turn the entire AI multiverse upside down recently, now Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot, as it looks to compete with Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O), opens new tab OpenAI, and Alphabet‘s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google.
The debut of Grok-3 comes at a time where the competition in the AI industry is at an all time high. It comes just days after DeepSeek unveiled its powerful open-source model and as Musk moves aggressively to expand xAI‘s influence.
The chatbot is being rolled out immediately to Premium+ subscribers on X, formerly Twitter, the social media platform now owned by Musk. xAI is also launching a new subscription tier, SuperGrok, for users accessing the chatbot via its mobile app and Grok.com website.
“Grok-3 across the board is in a league of its own,” Musk said during a livestream alongside three xAI engineers late on Monday, adding the model outperforms its predecessor, Grok-2.
“The introduction of Grok-3 puts xAI back in the race for leadership in open-source LLMs. It outperforms the current state-of-the-art models on some benchmarks, which makes xAI relevant again” said Gil Luria, managing director at D.A. Davidson.
The latest release introduces a smart search engine, called DeepSearch, which xAI describes as a reasoning-based chatbot capable of articulating its thought process when responding to user queries.
The tool, demonstrated during the livestream, reportedly offers functions for research, brainstorming, and data analysis.
Last week, a consortium of investors led by Musk offered $97.4 billion to acquire OpenAI‘s nonprofit assets, an offer the ChatGPT-maker rejected.
Must be nice.
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