Elon Musk’s AI Revolution Continues as xAI Unveils Grok 3 AI Model

Artificial intelligence has evolved rapidly along with xAI certainly taking up the challenge with the launch of Grok 3 AI Model that promises advanced reasoning capabilities, deep search, and a voice mode, making it the most intelligent chatbot around. Although, in the current super competitive AI race, one question is raised in people’s minds, will Grok 3 outwit, outlast, and out-GPT its competitors?

The xAI’s Grok 3, founded by Elon Musk, became the latest flagship AI model launched, with new features being introduced in Grok apps on iOS and the Web. It is designed to compete with OpenAIs’ models GPT-4o or Google ‎Gemini. Grok 3 has extensive capabilities in image analysis, reasoning, and deep research functions, categorically establishing an AI performance benchmark.

Grok 3 AI Model step ahead in AI:

Grok 3 AI Model had reportedly been under development for a few months and was in need of massive training in a data center in Memphis with nearly 200,000 GPUs. Musk in his post on X claimed that, “Grok 3 was developed with 10x more computing than Grok 2, its predecessor, and with an expanded training data set that ostensibly includes filings from court cases”.

During a live-streamed presentation Musk said, “Grok 3 is an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2. [It’s a] maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct”. Grok 3 is not one model, but rather a family of models, including the Grok 3 mini, which works faster but with less accuracy. Not all features are available right away but the launch has started this Monday.

Performance and Benchmarks:

According to xAI, Grok 3 surpasses GPT-4o in major AI benchmarks, including American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) (resolution of mathematically inclined questions) and Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark (GPQA). Early on, Grok 3 was found to compete with others in the Chatbot Arena, which is a crowdsourced platform to assess AI performances.

Grok 3 also has two special variants, Grok 3 reasoning and Grok 3 mini reasoning, in contrast to OpenAI o3-mini and DeepSeek R1 models in certain problem solving tasks. Whereas these reasoning models are working on a deep self-verification path before delivering their answers, thereby significantly increasing the level of correctness on mathematical, scientific, and programming questions. xAI claims Grok 3 Reasoning is better than OpenAI’s leading o3-mini-high model for mathematics, especially for AIME 2025. Users can interact with these models from the Grok app, using Think mode for general reasoning or Big Brain mode for complex computations requiring additional processing.

DeepSearch and Subscription Plans:

Reasoning in Grok 3 is also present in DeepSearch, an AI powered research tool by xAI where the internet and X delivers complete analyses. DeepSearch is xAI’s answer to similar tools from OpenAI and other AI firms. Access to Grok 3 is first limited to subscribers of X Premium+ plan, which costs $22 per month. Meanwhile, an upgraded subscription tier, SuperGrok, is rumored to cost $30 per month or $300 per year, offering additional reasoning queries, DeepSearch capabilities, and unlimited image generation. Musk also announced that Grok 3 will soon gain a voice mode, enhancing user interaction with synthesized speech.

Within weeks, Grok 3 models will be available in xAI’s enterprise API alongside DeepSearch functionality. Additionally, Musk revealed plans to open source Grok-2 in the coming months, stating that, “Our general approach is that we will open-source the last version [of Grok] when the next version is fully out. When Grok 3 is mature and stable, which is probably within a few months, then we’ll open-source Grok 2.”

Political Controversy:

Musk originally pitched Grok as being a way for people to get away from mainstream AIs, promising it would be “edgy, unfiltered, and anti-woke.” In previous versions, however, Grok could not resist becoming politically sensitive or aligning with leftist views prevailing in most social issues. Musk attributed that to Grok’s training data and promised to change its tone toward political neutrality.

Whether Grok 3 will achieve that remains to be seen, as well as how its stance on “truth-seeking” AI will be able to shape public discourse and governance over AI. It’s a milestone in the changing AI landscape, and this latest release from xAI promises to stretch what AI models are capable of. How far Grok 3 will go in terms of its perceived capabilities remains to be seen, while Musk continues to pursue the population of AI with truth seeking.

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