On Monday, Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, a new AI model family set to power chatbot features on the social network X. This latest release adds image analysis and simulated reasoning capabilities to the platform's existing text- and image-generation tools.
Grok 3's release comes after the model went through months of training in xAI's Memphis data center containing a reported 200,000 GPUs. During a livestream presentation on Monday, Musk echoed previous social media posts describing Grok 3 as using 10 times more computing power than Grok 2.
Since news of Grok 3's imminent arrival emerged last week, Musk began to hint that Grok may serve as a tool to represent his worldview in AI form. On Sunday he posted "Grok 3 is so based" alongside a screenshot—perhaps sharing a joke designed to troll the media—that purportedly asks Grok 3 for its opinion on the news publication called The Information. In response, Grok seems to reply: