Grok 3: Elon Musk and Xai deploy the new language model by IA on X
It was to arrive last year, but it was finally in this month of February 2024 that Grok 3, the new range of models of artificial intelligence of XAI, is deployed to the general public. And by the general public, these are precisely subscribers to the Premium+ service of the social network X, which will benefit from part of its new features before the ordinary people, more concerned with the use of their wallet.
In a presentation broadcast live on X, XAI employees, accompanied by their patron Elon Musk, presented various graphics and benchmarks to prove the superiority of calculation of Grok 3 and its smaller (and faster) model, Grok 3 Mini, faced with competition. According to his parents, Grok 3 would display scores higher than GPT-4O and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, but also to more recent LLMS like Gemini 2 Pro and Deepseek V3, on benchmark software as loves24 and GPQA; This does not tell us much, if not their concrete capacity to consume several hectoliters to calculate the square root of 56.
In a more doubtful register, Musk presents Grok 3 like “Seeking the verity as much as possible, even if this truth is sometimes against the current of politically correct“To justify in half the borderline language and lather racist of its default instructions, generating answers that align with the extreme right-wing ideology of the American billionaire. Without detour, he claims that he is Acts “The most intelligent artificial intelligence on earth“, which speaks volumes about the performance standards established by Xai.
To achieve such a result, Grok 3 would have received “ten times more“Training that its predecessor Grok 2 through its Colossus SuperCalculator, which houses 100,000 GPUS Nvidia Hopper according to the latest figures communicated in September 2024. A data center installed in the city of Memphis in the United States, and whose The environmental impact of its 15 gas turbines continues to worry local authorities. XAI had said that their activity was temporary, before a new request for a user license issued at the end of 2024 which would extend their activity until June 2030.
Two reasoning models – Grok 3 Reasoning and Grok 3 Mini Reasoning – based on the principles of Deepseek R1 are also made available for users of The Grok application. In parallel with their arrival, a new subscription named Supergrok has been formalized and will allow access to “exclusive” features such as Deepsearch (similar to its OPENAI equivalent) or a higher ceiling for the generation of images.
If the Subscription Prices for Supergrok have not yet been revealed, those of Premium+ on X may increase in the days that follow. Some site journalists Techcrunch have thus observed a substantial increase in the price for the highest level of social network subscription, from $ 22 to $ 50 per month. In France, the Premium+ subscription is (for the moment) still set at € 21.90 per month.
