"Strongest AI on Earth"? Musk's xAI officially releases Grok 3 big models

February 18, noon. MuskThe company's XAI held a Grok 3 launch event, which was watched by more than 1 million people online and hailed by Musk as "the smartest AI on the planet."

The launch demo showed that both Grok3 and Grok-3 mini outperform or match rivals such as Gemini, DeepSeek and ChatGPT in terms of performance in a wide range of areas such as mathematical reasoning, scientific logical reasoning, and moreoverxAIThe more powerful Grok3 Thinking reasoning mode is also available.

In addition to the computational aspect, Grok 3 performs equally well in terms of comprehension and creativity. Demonstrations included solving complex physics problems in real time, such as plotting interplanetary trajectories and conceptualizing video games ......

More surprisingly, Musk revealed that the best Grok-3 experience is "about a week away," with voice interaction still in development, and that users will have a conversational experience in a week.

Starting with Premium Plus subscribers on the X, Musk said in the release that it will be the first group to get access, while users can also subscribe to the service separately through Super Grok.

In addition, to support Grok3 training, xAI doubled its data center training clusters by 200,000 GPUs in just three months, and xAI struck a $5 billion deal with Dell, which may deliver servers with NVIDIA's GB200 chip to xAI this year.

"The smartest AI on the planet."

It is reported that Grok-3 achieved better results than DeepSeek-v3, GPT-4o, and Gemini-2 pro in a number of benchmark tests in terms of ability performance in mathematical reasoning, scientific logical reasoning, and code writing. It is reported that Grok 3 has now been running inside xAI for 2 weeks.

The xAI engineers described how Grok, despite its late start, caught up with ChatGPT in MMLU scores at a super-fast pace.

Musk and his team said that Grok 3 will also have similar reasoning capabilities to DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o3 Mini.

By all metrics Grok 3 outperforms all models and is ranked #1 in the world, with a reasoning mode and deep research capabilities. Musk announced Grok 3 during a video call at the World Government Summit in Dubai last week, saying the chatbot has "very strong reasoning capabilities" and is "the smartest AI on the planet".

Grok 3 is ten times faster than Grok 2, and the massive installation of more compute power in Grok 3 makes it possible to run large datasets in less time while providing higher accuracy.

In a specific demonstration, Grok3 was on hand to generate animated 3D maps for space launches, showing its ability to understand complex physics.

Musk's team entered a prompt requesting Grok-3 to generate code on the spot, and after running the code the screen showed an animation of the spacecraft traveling back and forth between Earth and Mars.

Another demo shows Gork-3's brilliant creativity by making a game similar to Tetris and Bejeweled.

Musk also revealed that we will be launching an AI game studio at xAI. If you are interested in joining us and developing AI-powered games, please join us.

xAI has implemented better functionality for Grok3 by modifying the Grok3 training process (not just hardware improvements). The updated model implements synthetic datasets, self-correction, and reinforcement learning to improve its performance.

On the subscription trial front, Musk said the Grok 3 beta is now available for X Premium users and a SuperGrok subscription is available.

In addition, xAI plans to open-source previous versions of its Grok model as soon as the latest version is fully mature, and Musk expects the Grok-3 transition to be completed within a few months.

It's worth noting that xAI is on the verge of striking a deal with Dell Technologies to acquire AI-optimized servers equipped with NVIDIA's GB200 chips worth more than $5 billion, designed to meet the growing computing needs of Grok 3 and other AI applications. If a deal is struck, Dell will deliver servers with NVIDIA's GB200 chips to xAI this year for optimized AI work, people familiar with the matter said.

During the launch, Musk's team also revealed that xAI doubled its data center capacity in just three months, using 200,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs to build the best AI.

Musk's team said that last April Musk decided that the only way for xAI to succeed and build the best AI was to create its own data center. It took us 122 days to get the first 100,000 GPUs up and running. We quickly realized that to build the AI we envisioned, we needed to double the size of the cluster. So another phase was launched and we doubled the capacity in just 92 days.

Netizen's comment: the first model ever to break 1400 points, the price-performance ratio is super Gemini!

The internet is also full of excitement about the release of Gork-3, with AI bigwig Andrej Karpathy trying it out and praising it, saying that Grok3+Thinking is probably on par with OpenAI's most powerful models (e.g., o1-pro, which is $200 a month), and is better than the DeepSeek-R1and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is slightly better.

Other netizens quipped thatGrok-3 is the first model ever to break 1400 points in Chatbot Arena.It outperforms OpenAI and Google's best publicly available inference models. And xAI, founded 13 years after Deepmind and 8 years after OpenAI, now leads both.

Some netizens, on the other hand, are confident in AI, and Grok3 seems to be very powerful, which is good evidence that the law of scaling doesn't actually end, and very bullish on the future of AI.

Some users have also pointed out its shortcomings, Grok3 is not good at coding.

In addition, there is even more speculation that this will not provoke a round of big model price war?

Source: WSJ "200,000 GPUs to produce 'smartest AI on the planet'? Musk's xAI Officially Releases Grok3 Big Model".