Musk’s claims
Musk claimed that Grok-3 outperforms Alphabet Inc.’s Google Gemini, DeepSeek’s V3 model, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI‘s GPT-4o across mathematics, science, and coding benchmarks.
During the livestream he said, ““People are going to fall in love with Grok. That’s 1,000% probable.”
Musk revealed that the model finished pre-training in early January and is already making daily improvements. “Literally within 24 hours, you’ll see improvements,” he said.
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Discussing the goals of xAI and Grok, Musk stated that their aim is to “understand the universe.”
“We want to answer the biggest questions: Where are the aliens? What’s the meaning of life? How does the universe end?”
He added that in order to understand the nature of the universe we “must rigorously pursue truth” even when the “truth” is at odds with what is “politically correct”.
He also didn’t forget to praise the team behind Grok AI, saying, “Thanks to the hard work of an incredible team, and I’m honoured to work with such a great team.”
Access
Initially, access to this advanced AI will be exclusive to Premium Plus subscribers on the X platform, with a new subscription tier, “Super Grok,” providing enthusiasts with early and comprehensive access to its features.
Grok 2
Grok 2 was launched in August last year. It boasted of salient features like recently introduced image generator Aurora and web search among others.
The Grok AI chatbot is available to anyone for free by signing up on X.
Funding
Musk’s startup xAI secured $6 billion in its latest funding round in December. The company received backing from US venture capitalists, chipmakers Nvidia and AMD, as well as investment funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others.
The company is now valued at $50 billion, making it one of the world’s most valuable startups, though still far behind its competitor OpenAI’s $157 billion valuation.
Musk vs OpenAI
Last week, a group of investors led by Musk offered $97.4 billion to acquire OpenAI’s non-profit assets. OpenAI had stated its goal to become a for-profit organisation to secure the funding needed for developing top AI models.
But the deal was rejected by the board of directors of OpenAI.
The dispute between Musk and OpenAI began when he filed a lawsuit last year alleging that OpenAI has strayed from its original mission as a non-profit research lab meant to serve the public good.
Musk cofounded OpenAI with its CEO Sam Altman in 2015 to develop AI technology in a way that “benefited humanity”.
