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Investing.com -- Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, revealed its updated Grok-3 model, an advanced chatbot technology developed to compete with OpenAI. This comes shortly after Musk’s unsolicited offer to acquire OpenAI was turned down. According to information shared during a live stream on Monday, Grok-3 outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Google Gemini by Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc., DeepSeek’s V3 model, and Anthropic’s Claude in math, science, and coding benchmarks.
Musk, who is currently the world’s wealthiest individual, stated that Grok-3 has over ten times the computational power of its predecessor. The model completed its pre-training phase in early January, as Musk presented alongside three xAI engineers. However, these performance claims have not been independently confirmed. This development intensifies the ongoing rivalry between Musk’s startup and OpenAI. Musk founded xAI in 2023 as an alternative to OpenAI, which he has publicly criticized for its decision to become a for-profit entity.
Musk has previously filed two lawsuits against OpenAI, accusing the company of deviating from its founding principles. He also proposed to purchase OpenAI’s nonprofit division for $97.4 billion, a bid that was rejected last week. OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, described Musk’s offer as a strategy to hinder their progress. Musk, who was part of OpenAI’s formation, has been critical of the company since his departure from the board in 2018.
In addition to the Grok-3 update, xAI also launched a new smart search engine, DeepSearch. This reasoning chatbot reveals its process of comprehending a query and planning its response. It provides options for research, brainstorming, and data analysis, as demonstrated during the presentation. Musk’s team also plans to launch a voice-based chatbot.
Musk assured that the models are being enhanced daily, promising visible improvements within 24 hours. Grok-3 is accessible to Premium+ subscribers on X, a service priced at $22 per month, in comparison to OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which costs $200 a month for full access. xAI is initiating a new subscription, SuperGrok, for the bot’s mobile app and the Grok.com website. The company also intends to make previous Grok models open-source once the latest model is fully matured. Musk anticipates this transition for Grok-3 to be completed in the coming months.
Following the release of the Grok-3 updates, Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI who has since left the company, wrote a preliminary review of the new model. He stated that it seems to be on par with OpenAI’s strongest models, but also noted that Musk’s model sometimes creates facts and lags in certain functions. He suggested that more evaluations are needed over the forthcoming days and weeks to gain a clearer understanding of the model’s capabilities.
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