X (formerly Twitter) users can now test the capabilities of Grok 3, the new bot developed by xAI, one of Elon Musk's many companies. The new model was trained on the nearly 200,000 GPUs in the company’s new Memphis data center that the company hastily built.
xAI’s model goes up against OpenAI
According to xAI’s benchmarks performed, Grok 3 outperformed GPT-4o (OpenAI’s latest consumer language model) on several industry tests: math questions (AIME), chemistry, physics, and biology problems (GPQA), and even Chatbot Arena, a test where users vote among the answers given by different AI models.
Grok 3 integrates new capabilities: “Think”, in which the user will see the bot’s reasoning processor in the manner of ChatGPT’s o1 model, and “Big Brain” which takes care of demanding tasks requiring a lot of computation. At the same time, xAI has also launched a “Deep Search” feature, which is very similar to ChatGPT’s search: the service will scour the internet and X/Twitter to provide up-to-date answers to current events.
Grok 3, which is also available in the bot’s iOS and Android apps, will be available to X Premium Plus subscribers, whose price has nearly doubled to $40 per month. A new dedicated pricing tier, SuperGrok, is priced at $30 per month to access the bot’s most advanced capabilities.
Elon Musk has said that Grok 3 is an AI that “searches for the truth first, even if it sometimes goes against political correctness.” We'll have to see how it goes: tests have shown that Grok 2 has a fairly pronounced penchant for progressive ideas, a million miles away from those of Donald Trump's right-hand man! Obviously, everything depends on the data used to train the model.
OpenAI, which Musk has constantly criticized for ChatGPT's "political correctness," also wants to rebalance it so that the bot appears "neutral" in its responses. xAI’s rival company recently rolled out its roadmap for what’s next, with GPT-5 on the horizon.
Source: TechCrunch
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