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Elon Musk's AI venture, xAI, has thrown down the gauntlet. The company's newest AI model, Grok 3, emerged from its digital cocoon on Monday, backed by an arsenal of 200,000 GPUs.
Elon Musk's AI venture, xAI, has thrown down the gauntlet. The company's newest AI model, Grok 3, emerged from its digital cocoon on Monday, backed by an arsenal of 200,000 GPUs.
This isn't your average AI upgrade. xAI claims it pumped ten times more computing power into Grok 3 than its predecessor. Think of it as giving steroids to a chess champion who was already beating grandmasters.
The model comes in different flavors. There's Grok 3 mini for the speed demons. And for the deep thinkers, there's Grok 3 Reasoning.
What's turning heads is Grok 3's performance. It's strutting around with top scores on benchmarks like AIME and GPQA. That's fancy talk for "it's really good at math and science." It even broke records on Chatbot Arena, where AI models duke it out in front of human judges.
But here's where it gets interesting. Musk is marketing Grok 3 as a "maximally truth-seeking AI." It's supposedly unafraid to speak uncomfortable truths, even if they ruffle some politically correct feathers. Bold claim from a bold billionaire.
Access isn't cheap. Premium+ X subscribers ($50/month) get first dibs. There's also a new SuperGrok subscription in the works, rumored at $30 monthly or $300 yearly. For that price, you get extra reasoning power and unlimited image generation. Think of it as a VIP pass to the AI club.
The future looks busy for Grok. Voice mode is coming next week. An enterprise API is around the corner. And in a surprising twist, xAI plans to open-source Grok 2 once its successor is stable. That's like giving away last year's Ferrari when you get the new model.
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