Grok 3 Launched by Elon Musk’s xAI Outperforming DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1 and Gemini-2 Flash Thinking; Check Modes, Versions and More

Austin, February 18: Elon Musk's xAI has launched the next-gen Grok 3 AI model, offering better compute and reasoning power. Musk, along with three other members of his company's team, joined the live launch event on X, showcasing the capabilities. Earlier, xAI planned to train Grok 3 with 65,000 NVIDIA H100s, but later, the company decided to go ahead with 1,00,000 GPUs for better performance.

At the beginning of the Grok 3 launch event, Elon Musk said that the purpose of working on the next-generation artificial intelligence model was to "understand the meaning of the universe." He further added that xAI would focus on finding answers related to aliens, the meaning of life, and other such triggering questions. Elon Musk said xAI launched Grok 3 as a beta with some imperfections; however, would improve it within a week, offering a better experience. AI Expansion in South Korea: Government To Secure 10,000 GPUs, Including NVIDIA H100 and H200, for National AI Computing Centre, Says Report.

Grok 3 Launch Live Streaming Video

https://t.co/hEfQ31gANQ

— xAI (@xai) February 18, 2025

Grok 3 AI Models, Capabilities and Training

Elon Musk-owned xAI launched three modes in its Grok 3 Mini model: DeepSearch, Think and Big Brain. The xAI team showcased the charts of how the latest version of Grok. Further, the team showed that the AI chatbot could merge two games to generate a standalone game that was a mixture of both using a better coding version.

xAI team shared that Grok 3 outperformed DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1, Gemini-2 Flash Thinking on Math (AIME'24), Science (GPQA) and Coding (LCB Oct-Feb) with top scores. The Grok 3 Reasoning Beta and Grok 3 mini also outperformed compared to these models. During the Grok 3 release event, the team showed the model's real-time search capabilities and predictive abilities. Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini also surpassed the multiple benchmarks, beating Gemini 2 Pro, DeepSeek V3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. 

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Grok 3 Availability and Price

Grok 3 will be available to X Premium+ users starting today, and it will give them early access to the features, reasoning, DeepSearch, and increased usage limits. A separate subscription plan was also announced for "SuperGrok" that would let interested people access Grok 3, unlock DeepSearch and Think, give early access to new features, and allow higher image generation limits. SuperGrok will be for the website and dedicated app. 

"Grok" word as per Elon Musk, comes from a novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein's. It means to deeply understand something. Musk chose it for his AI to symbolize deep insight into human questions and the universe.

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