Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
TechCrunchFEB 17
Musk's xAI Launches Grok 3
Above: A young man looks at the home page of the AI chatbot Grok 3 in Shanghai, China, on Feb. 18, 2025. Image copyright: CFOTO/Contributor/Future Publishing via Getty Images
The Spin
Narrative A
If Musk's description of Grok 3 is accurate, this new chatbot will become the world's smartest AI model. It's not just three times faster than the remarkable Grok 2, but it will offer assistance in multiple languages and use customer feedback to enhance accuracy. The key to a successful AI chatbot is its ability to train itself and Grok 3 is proving very capable.
Narrative B
Grok 3 will likely be on par with, if not slightly inferior to, its ChatGPT counterparts, as stated by one of xAI's engineers himself. The only thing Grok has that other AI companies lack is its ability to scrape real-time data from X posts, but that's made more difficult by misinformation. Grok has a way to go before it can be crowned king of AI.
Establishment-critical narrative
No matter how tech executives promote their products, every new AI development is part of an arms race to human-technology singularity. These rapidly advancing models, especially in the hands of governments, will undoubtedly be used by humans for military purposes, and eventually by the AI bots themselves as a once-fictional Terminator becomes reality.