xAI officially unveiled its newest chatbot, Grok 3, on Tuesday. During a demonstration broadcast on his X platform, Elon Musk claimed the chatbot was more powerful than its contemporaries, including ChatGPT and DeepSeek.
Grok 3 was made available to premium X subscribers yesterday evening. It will soon be available as a standalone subscription, giving customers access to both the web and mobile versions of the platform. It was also revealed that xAI would launch a new product, known as “Deep Search.” This functions as a “next generation search engine,” according to Musk.
Last week, Musk called the model “scary smart,” and claimed “this might be the last time that an AI is better than Grok.” With the recent explosion of the China-owned DeepSeek, figures from across the US tech space will hope this marks a new chapter as the global AI race heats up.
xAI Rolls Out Newest Grok Model
Elon Musk’s xAI officially unveiled Grok 3 on Tuesday. The latest iteration of its flagship AI chatbot, Grok 3 is reputed to outperform its rivals based on early testing.
During a stream on X, Musk stated: “We’re very excited to present Grok 3, which is, we think, an order of magnitude more capable than Grok in a very short period of time.” The chatbot was made available to premium X subscribers later that day, with a new subscription-based model to be unveiled soon.
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The company also plans to release “Deep Search,” which Musk called the “next generation search engine,” and “voice mode,” which will give Grok a synthesized voice.
Musk Claims New AI Model Better than Rivals
Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai last week, the Tesla boss called the new Grok model “scary smart,” and claimed that it would leave its competitors, including ChatGPT and Gemini, in the dust with its advanced reasoning.
Grok differs from its contemporaries in that it is trained on synthetic data, rather than real-world data. This means that the model is able to achieve logical consistency by combing through the data. Supposedly, it also helps the chatbot to better understand human nuances and complexities. Hence, it can offer “unfiltered” and “provocative” responses to human prompts.
While it is allegedly capable of bettering its rivals already, Musk signaled his intention to keep improving Grok: “We should emphasize that this is kind of a beta, meaning that you should expect some imperfections at first, but we will improve it rapidly, almost every day.”
US-China AI Competition Intensifies
With the sudden emergence of DeepSeek, the AI race is at a critical inflexion point. The China-owned startup took the world by storm a few weeks ago, when its R1 model was released in the US and promptly rocketed to the top of the Apple and Google app stores.
Since beginning his second term on January 20, President Donald Trump has sought to establish the US as the world leader in AI. He quickly overturned a Biden-penned executive order that called for greater protections against the potential threat posed by the technology, and recently announced Project Stargate, a new company that aims to be the “largest AI infrastructure project in history.”
With the release of Grok 3, many will hope that the US has landed a decisive blow in the ongoing AI race.
