In a livestream on February 17 (local time), xAI said Grok-3 beat Google Gemini, DeepSeek V3, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT-4o in math, science and programming benchmarks.

Grok-3 has 10 times the computing power of the previous generation, Musk said in a presentation with three xAI engineers.

The startup used a massive data center in Memphis containing around 200,000 GPUs to train Grok-3.

“We will continue to improve the model every day, you will see progress in 24 hours,” the billionaire affirmed.

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xAI's Grok app allows logging in with an X account. Photo: Du Lam

xAI introduces a new intelligent search engine with Grok-3 called DeepSearch. DeepSearch is a reasoning chatbot that can demonstrate the process of learning keywords and how to respond. It includes research, brainstorming, and data analysis options.

Grok-3 is available with a Premium+ subscription on X immediately. The company will sell the new SuperGrok subscription package for the Grok mobile app and Grok.com website.

The new chatbot appears to put Grok ahead of OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT, further intensifying the rivalry between the two companies. Musk founded xAI in 2023 to compete with OpenAI, a company he co-founded years ago but left in 2018.

The billionaire has filed two lawsuits against OpenAI for violating its founding principles and offered to buy the startup’s nonprofit arm for $97.4 billion, but was rejected. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Musk’s proposal a ploy to slow down his progress.

OpenAI and xAI have been raising money at a rapid pace. xAI is in talks to raise around $10 billion, which could value it at $75 billion. OpenAI, meanwhile, is looking to raise $40 billion, which would value it at $300 billion.

Doing business in AI is also expensive. Last month, SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX announced a $100 billion program to build data centers and other AI infrastructure in the U.S. Dell is in talks to provide xAI with AI-optimized servers.

Still, new technologies are emerging that threaten American AI. Last month, Chinese startup DeepSeek shocked the world by announcing an open-source AI model—R1—that can match, or even outperform, its American rivals, but at a much lower cost to develop.

According to Musk, they will release the source code for the previous Grok version of the latest version. In the next few months, when Grok-3 is stable, the startup will do the same for Grok-2.

(According to Bloomberg)