Elon Musk to unveil xAI's 'scary-smart' Grok 3 chatbot Monday

U.S. billionaire Elon Musk announced that xAI’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok 3, will debut with a live demonstration at 8 p.m. Pacific time Monday (0400 GMT Tuesday).

Elon Musk gestures during an event in Rome, Italy, in a file photo. Xinhua

The announcement follows Musk’s statement last week that xAI’s newest generative AI model would be available by the end of the month. He called Grok 3 “scary-smart” and suggested it could surpass all existing AI models.

Elon Musk announces the release time of Grok 3 in his posts on X. 

Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai via video call Thursday, Musk claimed Grok 3 is “outperforming anything that’s been released” and possesses “very powerful reasoning capabilities.” He added that the chatbot has generated “not obvious solutions” beyond human anticipation.

“We think it’ll be better than anything else, and then maybe this might be the last time that any AI is better than Grok,” he said, a challenge to OpenAI’s long dominant ChatGPT.

Musk founded xAI in 2023 as a direct competitor to OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015 alongside Sam Altman. Musk severed ties with OpenAI in 2018 and has since engaged in a legal battle against the firm.

On Monday, a group of investors led by Musk made a US$97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI’s nonprofit assets, aiming to prevent the organization from transitioning into a for-profit entity.

Musk, who also leads Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X, sued OpenAI in August and has asked a U.S. district judge to block the company’s structural shift.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman swiftly dismissed the takeover offer, appearing to mock the US$44 billion Musk paid for X, formerly known as Twitter.

“No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman posted on X.