Billionaire Elon Musk launches Grok-3 AI chatbot to compete with OpenAI, DeepSeek

Billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has unveiled an updated Grok-3 model, introducing a version of chatbot technology that the Tesla boss boasts is "the smartest AI on Earth."

In math, science and coding benchmarks, Grok-3 beat Alphabet's Google Gemini, DeepSeek's V3 model, Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT-4o, xAI representatives said during a livestream today (UTC time). Grok-3 has "more than 10 times" the computing power of its predecessor and completed pre-training in early January, billionaire Musk said during a presentation alongside three xAI engineers.

Billionaire Elon Musk launches Grok-3 AI chatbot to compete with OpenAI, DeepSeek.

“We are constantly improving the models every day and literally within 24 hours you will see improvements,” Musk said.

XAI introduced a new intelligent search engine with Grok-3, called DeepSearch. DeepSearch is a reasoning chatbot that demonstrates the process of understanding queries and how to plan responses. The demo shows that it includes options for researching, brainstorming, and analyzing data.

Grok-3 is rolling out to Premium+ subscribers on social media platform X immediately. The company is launching a new subscription plan called SuperGrok for the Grok mobile app and Grok.com website.

The new chatbot appears to put Grok ahead of OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT, adding to the growing rivalry between the two companies. Musk launched xAI in 2023 as an alternative to OpenAI, which the billionaire has publicly criticized for its plans to restructure into a for-profit company.

The Tesla boss has sued OpenAI twice for allegedly violating its founding principles and offered to buy the nonprofit arm of OpenAI for $97.4 billion in a bid that was rejected last week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called Musk’s bid a tactic to “slow us down.” Musk was involved in the founding of OpenAI but has been a vocal critic of the company since leaving its board in 2018.

Big AI companies like OpenAI and xAI have been raising money at a rapid pace and at skyrocketing valuations. Musk’s xAI is reportedly in talks to raise about $10 billion in a round that would value the company at about $75 billion. The company was last valued at about $51 billion. Meanwhile, OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $40 billion in a round that would value the company at as much as $300 billion.

These companies are also capital intensive. SoftBank Group, OpenAI, Oracle and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX jointly announced a program in January to deploy $100 billion, with an eventual goal of spending $500 billion, to build data centers and other AI infrastructure in the U.S. Dell Technologies is in the advanced stages of securing a deal worth more than $5 billion to supply xAI with AI-optimized servers.

However, emerging rival technologies could challenge this model and create conditions for new competitors to emerge. Last month, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a new open-source AI model, called R1, that matched or beat leading US competitors on a range of industry benchmarks. DeepSeek claims to have built the model at a fraction of the cost of its US competitors.

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