xAI Launches Grok-3 AI Model, Claims Superior Performance Over GPT-4

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI on Tuesday announced Grok-3, and Musk is making some bold claims. The new AI model is said to have more than ten times the computing power of its predecessor and outperforms leading competitors, including OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini.

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The latest iteration of xAI's flagship model introduces new "reasoning" capabilities through two distinct modes: "Think," which displays the AI's reasoning process while resolving requests, and "Big Brain" for handling more computationally intensive tasks.

Alongside the model update, xAI announced Deep Search, which the company describes as a "next generation search engine." The new feature is designed to analyze information from the internet and X (Twitter) to provide comprehensive answers to user queries.

Grok-3 will be available to X Premium Plus subscribers, which now costs $40 per month, up from $22 – the second such price hike in as many months. The company is also launching a new subscription tier called SuperGrok, priced at $30 per month, offering "the most advanced capabilities and earliest access to new features."

Musk said that Grok-3 is designed to be a "maximally truth-seeking AI," even when such truth might conflict with political correctness. The model has faced previous criticism for spreading election misinformation and having fewer restrictions on text-to-image generation.

Grok-3's reasoning capabilities are available in the Grok app. In the future, xAI says it plans to add synthesized voice capabilities to the Grok chatbot and intends to make the previous version, Grok-2, open source in the coming months.

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rymc02 Avatar
20 weeks ago

Elon Musk strikes again... Competition is good!
Why do we continue to give credit to this guy? If you want to celebrate the team fine, but let's not pretend this dude is in there coding and developing the LLM. He's not designing rockets or building batteries or electric motors. He's a money guy who spews a bunch of vaporware promises to pump his value in the company.

We don't give Warren Buffet direct credit when all the companies he's invested in go up in value. Why are we giving this carnival barker so much credit?
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chfilm Avatar
20 weeks ago
Hard pass on anything Musk related.
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mrgrdn Avatar
20 weeks ago
Offcourse Musk had to say that. Such a clown
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PsykX Avatar
20 weeks ago
Competition is good, but I'll take everything Musk declares with a grain of salt.

I need proof that it is vastly superior, and I'll believe it. If it's so much better than anything OpenAI does, why the hell did he want to buy them last week? ?

As for the "maximally truthful" selling point, with all the declarations he made on X so far this year, I just don't believe it one minute.
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gglockner Avatar
20 weeks ago
Tesla owners who purchased Full Self Drive have learned to ignore all promises made by Musk because he has lied about its capabilities for years.
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Zc456 Avatar
20 weeks ago
Unless we see some detailed research, including their methods and the ability to replicate it ourselves, I'm taking it all with a grain of salt.
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