Billionaire Elon Musk said on Saturday that his xAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot and ChatGPT challenger Grok 3 would be released with a live demo on Tuesday.
Earlier this week, Musk said Grok 3 was in the final stages of development and would be released in about a week or two. However, in a recent post on X, the tech billionaire announced that the AI chatbot will make its debut today.
This means that the live demo of Grok 3 is expected to be held at 9:30am IST on Tuesday, February 18.
Touted as the “smartest AI on Earth” by Musk, Grok 3 is expected to be powered by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer which reportedly houses over 1,00,000 Nvidia GPU hours for the purpose of training AI models. It was built in just over eight months.
The more efficient successor to Grok 2 was reportedly trained on synthetic datasets using machine learning techniques such as reinforcement learning, according to a report by Forbes.
Reinforcement learning is said to be an effective method to reduce incorrect or imaginary responses provided by AI models, otherwise known as hallucinations. It also significantly reduces the training times of large language models (LLMs).
“This might be the last time that an AI is better than Grok,” Musk had said at The World Governments Summit in Dubai recently, in praise of the upcoming LLM’s advanced capabilities.
xAI’s live demo of Grok 3 comes more than a month after the disruption caused by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. The latter’s cost-efficient reasoning model R1 is said to be on par with OpenAI’s o1 model in terms of performance, even though it was developed at just a fraction of the cost of its US competitors.
According to Bloomberg, xAI is expected to raise $10 billion in funding in a new round with participation from global VCs such as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Valor Equity Partners. The AI company’s valuation is likely to rise to $75 billion.
