In the field of artificial intelligence, the xAI company led by Elon Musk is about to launch a technological revolution. The company plans to release its latest generation of chatbot Grok3 on February 17 at 8 p.m. Pacific time. Musk praised Grok3 as "the smartest artificial intelligence on earth", and this release comes as global competition for artificial intelligence models has entered a fierce stage. Grok3 is unique in that it is trained based on synthetic data, and achieves logical consistency through repeated review of the data, and has the ability to reflect on itself and correct errors, marking a new milestone in artificial intelligence technology.
Grok3's biggest breakthrough is that it introduces the "Chain Of Thought" reasoning ability. This innovative feature allows Grok3 to gradually handle complex tasks like humans, significantly improves its ability to respond to complex queries, and provides a more coherent and logical response. In addition, Grok3 has also achieved significant improvements in inference, programming capabilities, and multimodal functions such as text and image analysis, demonstrating its overall progress in the field of artificial intelligence.
Since the release of Grok1 in November 2023, the Grok series has been evolving. Grok1 relies primarily on synthetic data and therefore performs poorly when dealing with real-world complexity. Grok2 has been improved on this basis, integrating a small amount of high-quality real data to make it perform better in real scenarios. Nevertheless, xAI is still relatively slow in competition for big models, especially in comparison with major competitors such as OpenAI, which still needs to speed up to stay competitive.
Before Grok3 was launched, OpenAI just announced that its GPT-4o model will be upgraded to the o3pro level, becoming the best AI search product at present. At the same time, the release of xAI's Grok3 is also delayed compared to Musk's earlier expectations. Last summer, Musk said on social platforms that Grok3 will be launched by the end of 2024 and plans to use 100,000 H100 GPUs for training. This delay may reflect xAI's rigorous attitude towards technology research and development.
In addition, xAI is negotiating with Dell to purchase a new generation of GB200 GPU servers, with a transaction value expected to exceed $5 billion. To support this strategy, Musk is raising about $10 billion in xAI, with a valuation expected to reach $75 billion. However, xAI still pales in comparison to OpenAI's $150 billion valuation. Despite this, the technological innovation and market potential of xAI cannot be underestimated.
It is worth noting that Musk has also recently participated in a competition for acquisitions against OpenAI. The consortium he led had proposed a proposal to acquire OpenAI for $97.4 billion, but was rejected by OpenAI. Musk expressed dissatisfaction with OpenAI's for-profitness and even filed a petition in court to prevent its transformation into a for-profit institution. This dispute not only shows the tension between Musk and OpenAI, but also reflects the current fierce competition in the AI field.