IBL News | New York
Elon Musk’s xAI company released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, yesterday as an alternative to OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini. Musk also said that xAI plans to open-source Grok 2 in the coming months.
xAI claimed that Grok 3 beats GPT-4o on benchmarks.
“Grok 3 is an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2,” Musk said during a livestreamed presentation on Monday. “It’s a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.”
A smaller version of Grok 3, Grok 3 mini, was also introduced.
Grok’s reasoning models were enhanced by a new feature in the Grok app called DeepSearch, xAI’s answer to tools like OpenAI’s deep research. DeepSearch scans the Internet and X to analyze information and deliver an abstract in response to a question.
Musk said some of the reasoning models’ “thoughts” were obscured in the Grok app to prevent distillation, a method AI model developers use to extract knowledge from other models. Recently, DeepSeek was accused of distilling OpenAI’s models to create its own.
— xAI (@xai) February 18, 2025
