Elon Musk launches new AI chatbot Grok 3
Renowned businessman and U.S. special government employee Elon Musk has launched Grok 3, the latest artificial intelligence chatbot from his company, xAI.
According to reports, the launch coincides with Musk leveraging former President Donald Trump’s influence to restructure and potentially eliminate bureaucratic hurdles within federal agencies.
This move has raised concerns over possible conflicts of interest, as many of these agencies regulate Musk’s various business ventures.
Grok 3, introduced on Monday, February 17, enters a fiercely competitive AI market alongside industry leaders like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek.
During the launch presentation, Musk emphasized the chatbot’s ambitious mission:
“Grok is to understand the universe. We’re driven by curiosity about the nature of the universe—that’s also what causes us to be a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.”
Musk described Grok 3 as “scary smart,” boasting ten times the computational power of its predecessor, which was launched in August 2023. The chatbot has been trained on synthetic data and incorporates self-correction mechanisms to minimize AI-generated misinformation, or “hallucinations.”
Outperforming Rivals
Musk claims Grok 3 exhibits exceptional reasoning abilities, outperforming all known competitors in preliminary tests. He highlighted these advancements during a recent video call at the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
Initially, Grok 3 will be available exclusively to Premium+ subscribers on X—formerly known as Twitter—before expanding to a wider audience.
Musk’s chatbot enters an increasingly competitive AI landscape, where nations and tech giants are racing to develop cost-effective, cutting-edge solutions.
Recently, Chinese startup DeepSeek made headlines with its affordable, high-quality R1 chatbot, challenging U.S. dominance in AI. Grok 3 will also go head-to-head with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, reigniting Musk’s rivalry with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, investing $45 million to counterbalance Google’s dominance in AI. However, he left the company in 2018. The launch of ChatGPT in 2022 marked a major technological breakthrough—one that Musk was not part of, propelling Altman to global prominence.
Since then, tensions between Musk and Altman have escalated, culminating in OpenAI’s board rejecting Musk’s recent proposal to acquire the company for nearly $100 billion.
