Billionaire Elon Musk launches Grok 3 model
Last week, at a conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mr. Musk said the model was "scary smart" with strong reasoning abilities.
The billionaire claims it outperformed all other existing models in xAI's internal tests.
xAI says an early version of Grok 3 has received better reviews than current competitors on Chatbot Arena, a crowdfunding site where different AI models are pitted against each other in tests.
Mr. Musk added that the company will continue to improve the model.
Last month, DeepSeek released its R1 AI model, which is on par with or even outperforming popular AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Microsoft's CoPilot, and Meta's Llama.
What makes DeepSeek most surprising is that this AI model "only costs 5.6 million USD" to build and operate, while US technology companies are spending hundreds, even billions of USD to develop and operate their own AI models.
Another point that makes DeepSeek attract the attention of the technology world is that this AI tool was born and developed at a time when the US government was applying sanctions, preventing the supply of high-performance AI chips to Chinese companies.
That means DeepSeek was developed and runs on a low-performance AI chip, but still shows impressive power.