Elon Musk says scary-smart Grok 3 outperforms rival AI chatbots, will release in about two weeks
Elon Musk on Thursday claimed that his latest version of generative AI, Grok 3, is “outperforming” all rival chatbots and will be released by the end of the month.The billionaire started his artificial intelligence startup xAI in 2023 and launched Grok as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.“Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities, so in the tests that we’ve done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that’s been released, that we’re aware of, so that’s a good sign,” Musk said during a video call addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai.Musk called Grok 3 “scary-smart,” saying the bot has been able to come up with “not obvious solutions” that people would not anticipate. “We think it’ll be better than anything else, and then maybe this might be the last time that any AI is better than Grok,” he continued, a challenge to OpenAI’s long dominant ChatGPT.Musk co-founded OpenAI with its chief executive, Sam Altman, in 2015, but later ties with the firm in 2018 and has since been embroiled in a legal battle with the AI rival.On Monday, a group of investors led by Musk said it had made a shocking $97.4 billion offer to buy the assets of OpenAI’s nonprofit in an attempt to stop the company from transitioning to a for-profit structure.Musk, who also runs Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, sued Altman and others in August, and has asked a US district judge to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit structure.“I think the evidence is there in that OpenAI has gotten this far while having at least a sort of dual profit, non-profit role,” Musk said on Thursday.“What they’re trying to do now is to completely delete the non-profit, and that seems really going too far.”Altman had quickly shot down the offer, and seemingly mocked the $44 billion price Musk paid for X, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022.“No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman wrote in a post on ...