Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, recently unveiled its latest chatbot version, Grok-3. The release is response to an uptick in AI chatbot progression primarily fueled by Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, OpenAI, and Google:
‘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.
In another statement on the xAI website, xAI elaborates Grok 3 significance:
We are thrilled to unveil an early preview of Grok 3, our most advanced model yet, blending superior reasoning with extensive pretraining knowledge.
Grok-3 will be available to Premium+ subscribers on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. SuperGrok, a new subscription tier will be available for individuals using the chatbot via xAI mobile app and Grok.com website.
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The xAI data center training capacity has been increased due to billions in funding. Its supercomputer cluster is located in Memphis, Tennessee, called “Colossus”- the largest in the world:
xAI has established a decisive hardware advantage with the world’s largest AI supercomputer using an NVIDIA full stack reference design with 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. Compared to typical multi-year industry timeframes, Colossus was fully operational in 122 days and started running workloads just 19 days after the first servers were delivered. Soon, xAI will double the size of Colossus to a combined total of 200,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, achieved by using the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform.
The Grok-3 unveiling also entailed a smart search engine release offers functions for research, brainstorming, and data analysis. The latest release introduces DeepSearch, a smart search engine tool which xAI describes as “a reasoning-based chatbot capable of articulating its thought process when responding to user queries.”
The xAI focus on a more advanced chatbot comes in light of a consortium of investors led by Musk which offered $97.4 billion to acquire OpenAI’s nonprofit assets, ultimately the offer was later rejected.
