Elon Musk's Xai claims the latest version of the flagship “Grok” chatbot is better than rival products offered by Sam Altman-led Openai and China-based Deepseek.
Musk's new AI model, called the “Grok 3,” scored higher in mathematics, science and coding tests than Openai's GPT-4o, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude and Deepseek's V3 models. According to the chart The startup released it during a live streamed launch event late Monday.
Musk said the Grok 3 is “a few magnitudes of ability” than the previous version “in a very short period of time.” The Grok 3 used 10 times the computing power of the Grok 2 during its development.
“The Grok-3, which is all over Grok-3, is in its own league,” Musk added.
The chatbot, previously described by Musk as “Scary Smart,” is available to premium X subscribers, previously known as Twitter.
The Musk startup has also revealed a new tool called “Deep Search,” a Grok-powered AI search engine that explains the reasons behind the response to user queries.
Grok 3's performance claims have not yet been independently verified.
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of Openai and former director of Tesla's AI, I said after his first test The Grok 3 said it “evidently has a cutting-edge thinking model,” explaining it “slightly better” than the recent releases by Deepseek and Google.
Xai, released in 2023, is in talks to raise $10 billion With a valuation of $75 billionLarge investment companies such as Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital will be participating.
Grok 3 was launched during the legal slugfest between Musk and Altman over the future of Openai.
Musk co-founded the ChatGpt maker in 2015, but left the company after disagreement with Altman about the long-term direction.
Musk is pending federal anti-trust lawsuits against Openai and its leading investor Microsoft.
He is also seeking a preliminary injunction to block Altman's plan to turn Openai from a nonprofit into a for-profit organization.
Last week, Altman and his allies flatly rejected Musk's unsolicited $97.4 billion offer and $97.4 billion offer to control Openai.
Musk said in court filings that if Altman removed the plan to become commercial, he would abandon his hostile takeover efforts.
Elsewhere, Deepseek has sparked a shockwave across the US tech sector last month after releasing an open-source chatbot comparable to its US rivals.
Deepseek claimed that training the model cost less than $6 million and was developed without access to NVIDIA's most powerful computer chip.
Some experts, including Musk, have expressed doubts about Deepseek's claims, claiming that Chinese companies are likely to have far more tips than they have publicly admitted.
