Elon Musk, while trying to slash the US government’s federal spending, has also been exploring his businesses. Musk-led xAI released the latest version of his Grok chatbot, Grok 3, on February 18.
Grok Vs The Rest
Ever since then Musk and his allies have been talking up the platform, for being highly advanced.
In fact, Musk’s X timeline, apart from alleged misinformation on political issues, has also featured posts and reposts in the AI chatbot.
Interestingly, the release of this version was just days after the Sam Altman-led OpenAI rejected a USD 97.4 billion acquisition deal from an Elon Musk-led consortium.
Faster Than Previous Models
According to xAI engineers, this version (Grok 3) surpasses the capabilities of its previous version (Grok 2) by more than 10 times.
“Grok 3 has no specific “knowledge cutoff date”. Unlike GPT models which are constantly outdated by one year or more, Grok is always kept up-to-date. That’s actually a big deal and probably deserves more discussion”, claimed a user.
Grok has real-time knowledge. Big difference. https://t.co/RrJP9FiDgQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2025
Reacting to this, Musk said, “Grok has real-time knowledge. Big difference.”
Currently, Premium+ X subscribers, who pay USD 22 or around Rs 1,906 a month can access the bot.
This is much cheaper than OpenAI’s Chatbot, which could cost around USD 200 or close to Rs 20,000.
deepseek’s r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price.
we will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 28, 2025
Silence From Sam
Interestingly, Sam Altman has not reacted to the chatbot or its capabilities. This is worth mentioning because when Chinese chatbot DeepSeek stole the headlines, Altman acknowledged the capabilities of the platform and vowed to work to improve OpenAI’s bots.
There has been no known or published reaction from Grok’s other competitors, including DeepSeek and Google’s parent company, Alphabet.