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Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grok 3 Chatbot Amidst Growing AI Competition
New AI chatbot designed for superior accuracy and logical consistency set to demonstrate capabilities on social media platform X.
Elon Musk has officially announced the launch of Grok 3, the latest iteration of his AI chatbot developed by xAI.
The chatbot will go live with a demonstration on Monday, October 23, at 8:00 PM Pacific Time (0400 GMT) via the social media platform X. Musk has referred to Grok 3 as the 'smartest AI on Earth', indicative of his ambitions for the technology.
Grok 3 has been trained on synthetic data, a method that allows it to potentially enhance its ability to process and generate information accurately.
The launch follows recent developments in the AI landscape, particularly the success of Chinese startup DeepSeek, which has surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT in downloads on the Apple App Store.
xAI's Grok AI represents a suite of artificial intelligence tools aimed at integrating seamlessly with X. It is designed to facilitate sophisticated conversations, share real-time information, and assist users in various tasks directly through the platform.
Musk has highlighted several features of Grok 3 that mark advancements over its predecessor, Grok 2. Notably, Grok 3 incorporates a self-correction system that helps refine its responses, thereby improving logical consistency and minimizing inaccuracies, often referred to as 'hallucinations' in AI terminology.
The development of Grok 3 was facilitated by the Colossus supercomputer, which completed its construction in just eight months and required the utilization of over 100,000 Nvidia GPU hours for training.
Among Grok 3's innovations are human feedback loops and contextual training.
Human feedback loops allow users to review and provide assessments of the AI's responses, helping refine its answers over time.
Contextual training enables Grok 3 to understand the nuances of each interaction, allowing it to consider past conversations and user intent in formulating relevant responses.
In preliminary tests, Grok 3 has reportedly outperformed competitors including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's DeepMind Gemini in aspects of accuracy and reasoning.
Elon Musk has expressed confidence in Grok 3's adaptive capabilities, suggesting that it could set a new standard for AI chatbots moving forward.
The chatbot will go live with a demonstration on Monday, October 23, at 8:00 PM Pacific Time (0400 GMT) via the social media platform X. Musk has referred to Grok 3 as the 'smartest AI on Earth', indicative of his ambitions for the technology.
Grok 3 has been trained on synthetic data, a method that allows it to potentially enhance its ability to process and generate information accurately.
The launch follows recent developments in the AI landscape, particularly the success of Chinese startup DeepSeek, which has surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT in downloads on the Apple App Store.
xAI's Grok AI represents a suite of artificial intelligence tools aimed at integrating seamlessly with X. It is designed to facilitate sophisticated conversations, share real-time information, and assist users in various tasks directly through the platform.
Musk has highlighted several features of Grok 3 that mark advancements over its predecessor, Grok 2. Notably, Grok 3 incorporates a self-correction system that helps refine its responses, thereby improving logical consistency and minimizing inaccuracies, often referred to as 'hallucinations' in AI terminology.
The development of Grok 3 was facilitated by the Colossus supercomputer, which completed its construction in just eight months and required the utilization of over 100,000 Nvidia GPU hours for training.
Among Grok 3's innovations are human feedback loops and contextual training.
Human feedback loops allow users to review and provide assessments of the AI's responses, helping refine its answers over time.
Contextual training enables Grok 3 to understand the nuances of each interaction, allowing it to consider past conversations and user intent in formulating relevant responses.
In preliminary tests, Grok 3 has reportedly outperformed competitors including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's DeepMind Gemini in aspects of accuracy and reasoning.
Elon Musk has expressed confidence in Grok 3's adaptive capabilities, suggesting that it could set a new standard for AI chatbots moving forward.
