Elon Musk and the xAI team announced the Grok 3 AI model in an evening live stream on Monday.
The team detailed that the new model is “a magnitude more capable” than Grok 2, indicating Grok 3 has 10 to 15 times more power than Grok 2. They also claim that Grok 3 is more powerful than its AI model competitors such as DeekSeek and Google Gemini.
The xAI team said it has been improving on the Grok 3 AI model over the last several months, noting that it will be very, very funny, and adding that it has only been 17 months since the launch of the Grok 1 model.
The team has tested Grok 3 against many scholastic challenges, including the American Invitational Mapping Foundation, which the model matched up well against.
In demos, the xAI team showed how Grok 3 performed interesting tasks, such as computing a spacecraft mission from Earth to Mars and back and creating a game that is a mix of Tetris and Bejeweled. The team also mentioned that Grok 3 includes a feature called Big Brain, which is a reasoning model mode allowing for deeper thinking when processing queries.
Musk noted that 17 months prior, the original Grok model could barely solve high school problems, and now “Grok is ready to go to college,” with how much it has advanced.
In addition to Grok 3, the team also mentioned that it is working on an AI gaming studio, which will be a service for consumers. Additionally, it is developing a Deep Search feature for Grok, which will be xAI’s version of AI Agents.
Grok 3 will be available as of Monday for Premium + users. The team is also rolling out a new subscription product called SuperGrok, which will have better access to the AI model and additional features.
The xAI team noted that Grok 3 should be treated as a beta version, and users should be mindful of errors in its processing.
In a post-launch Q&A, the team confirmed that Grok 3 can process audio into text. Additionally, they confirmed, that Grok 2 will be made open source once Grok 3 is “mature and stable.”
