Elon Musk announces Grok 3 chatbot release

|Published 8:00 PM ET, Sunday February 16, 2025|

Elon Musk has announced that xAI’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok 3, will be unveiled on Monday, February 17, 2025, at 8 p.m. Pacific Time (11 p.m. Eastern Time). This event will feature a live demonstration of Grok 3’s capabilities.

Grok 3 is designed to outperform existing AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Musk has highlighted Grok 3’s advanced reasoning abilities, describing it as “scary-smart” and capable of generating innovative solutions beyond conventional expectations.

The development of Grok 3 was accelerated by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer, which provided substantial computational resources for training the model. The chatbot has been trained on synthetic datasets and incorporates self-correction mechanisms and reinforcement learning to enhance its performance. These features aim to reduce inaccuracies, improve logical consistency, and enable continuous learning.

In addition to its technical advancements, Grok 3 offers improved multilingual support and is integrated with the X platform (formerly Twitter), making it accessible to a broad user base.

This release positions xAI as a significant competitor in the AI chatbot market, directly challenging established models like ChatGPT. The unveiling of Grok 3 is anticipated to influence the trajectory of AI development and application in various sectors.