Musk’s xAI Launches Grok 3: Here’s What You Need to Know

Elon Musk’s xAI announced its latest artificial intelligence flagship model, Grok 3, on Monday. The company also announced Grok 3 mini, a scaled-back version, plus the addition of DeepSearch, a new tool that the company calls a next-generation search engine. xAI has added new functionality for Grok 3 web and mobile apps and a subscription service specifically for Grok users, dubbed SuperGrok. 

“We’re very excited to present Grok 3, which is, we think, an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2 in a very short period of time,” Musk said during xAI’s livestream on X. Grok 3 was trained on 200,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, which is double that of Grok 2. The team said it took 92 days to expand its Memphis-based supercomputer, dubbed Colossus, to accommodate training for Grok 3. 

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A graph shows benchmark tests comparing Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to the competition.

Benchmark tests comparing Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to the competition.

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‘Scary smart’

“Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities,” Musk said during a Feb. 13 interview with CNBC. “In the tests that we’ve done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that’s been released that we’re aware of. At times, I think Grok 3 is kind of scary smart.”

Of course, there’s no way to test Grok 3’s capabilities yet. And the team mentioned that Grok may answer with what it believes is the truth — there was otherwise no mention of Grok 2’s penchant for outputting hallucinations or how often Grok 3 will do so.

Grok 3 conducting a DeepSearch about SpaceX's next Starship launch.

 Grok 3 conducting a DeepSearch about SpaceX’s next Starship launch.

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