Musk says xAI’s Grok 3 chatbot will be released on Feb 18
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Grok 3’s launch comes as countries rush to introduce AI chatbots that are more sophisticated and cheaper to make.
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Mr Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) start-up xAI will release its Grok 3 chatbot on Feb 18, with the billionaire describing it as the “smartest AI on Earth”.
The product will go live with a demonstration at 8pm Pacific time on Feb 17 (12pm on Feb 18, Singapore time), Mr Musk said in a post on X.
Mr Musk teased the planned launch of Grok 3 chatbot during a video conference at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Feb 13, calling it an AI model that would outperform every competing tool that has been released so far.
The model was trained on synthetic data and is capable of reflecting on mistakes that it makes by going back and forth through the data to achieve logical consistency, Mr Musk said.
Grok 3’s launch comes as countries rush to introduce AI chatbots that are more sophisticated and cheaper to make. DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up that stunned markets with a model on par with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is aggressively recruiting specialists in a signal of its rapidly expanding ambition.
Mr Musk and Mr Sam Altman – who together co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015 – have also been locked in a long-standing feud over the company’s direction. BLOOMBERG
