Elon Musk Announces Launch of Grok 3 Chatbot: ‘Smartest AI on Earth,’ ‘Scary Smart’

xAI head Elon Musk made major waves with tech and business analysts with the announcement of the imminent launch of Grok 3, the company’s most advanced AI chatbot to date.

According to Daily Galaxy, the new large language model (LLM) is powered by 100,000 NVIDIA H100 graphics processing units (GPUs), 10 times the processing power afforded to Grok 3’s predecessor, Grok 2.

And, unlike former iterations in the LLM or generative AI landscape, Grok 3 has adopted an entirely novel learning model. By utilizing synthetic datasets to simulate “diverse real-world scenarios,” Grok 3 is able to reduce biases and hallucinations common to the contemporary AI experience.

Taking to X on Feb. 15, Musk announced that Grok 3 would be released on Monday, Feb. 17, during a live demo to be held at 8 p.m. PT. Following that bit of news, the xAI CEO termed the company’s model as the “smartest AI on Earth.”

Musk Refers to Grok 3 as ‘Scary Smart’ During Live Video Call to Dubai Conference

During a video call addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Feb. 13, Musk referred to Grok 3 as being “scary smart” in addition to speaking about the improvements made — as well as its position among a slew of competitors.

“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.

Musk has also made headlines as late for an attempted acquisition of competitor OpenAI, a company he helped to co-found along with current CEO Sam Altman. Reuters reported that Musk and a consortium of investors pitched an offer to buy OpenAI on Feb. 10, for the princely sum of $97.4 billion. But that offer was quickly rejected by Altman, who took to X to retort: “No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”

no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 10, 2025

With OpenAI attempting to make a move into a for-profit company and Chinese AI competitor DeepSeek having muscled its way into the race for AI supremacy while ostensibly spending far less capital, a lot rests on Grok 3’s success.

One notable differentiator for Grok as a whole? It allows users to include celebrities, politicians, superheroes from various brands, and other figures barred from other LLMs in prompts. A native app is available for mobile users, and a web version also exists. Grok is also embedded directly into X as an AI assistant.

It is currently unclear whether Grok 3 will be made available for users on the free service tier or if its usage will be restricted to those holding paid subscriptions only.