Musk's Grok 3 AI ready to take world by storm: Launch set for February 17

CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk has revealed that xAI's next-generation large language model (LLM), Grok 3, will be officially launched on February 17 at 8:30 PM Pacific Time (10:00 AM India Time).

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk confirmed the release, declaring, "Grok 3 release with live demo on February 17 night at 8pm PT. Smartest AI on Earth," Caliber.Az reports per foreign media.

Musk further elaborated, saying, "Will be honing product with the team all weekend, so offline until then."

Earlier this week, while speaking at the Dubai World Government Summit, Musk shared his excitement about Grok 3's capabilities. Describing the AI model as "scary smart," Musk praised its powerful reasoning abilities and claimed that it was outperforming anything that has been released thus far.

 "Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities. In the test that we have done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that's been released that we are aware of. That's a good sign. In fact, at times, I think Grok 3 is kind of scary smart. You are like wow, this thing is smart, this thing comes up with solutions that you didn't even think, you wouldn't even anticipate," Musk remarked.

He went on to explain the model's advanced training process, stating, "Grok 3 was trained with the most amount of compute and I think very efficiently trained. Grok 3 was trained on a lot of synthetic data and then it goes back and forth through the data and tries to achieve logical consistency. If it's got data that is wrong, it will actually reflect upon that and remove the data that is wrong, that does not concord with reality. Its base reasoning is very good."

In addition to the Grok 3 launch, Musk made headlines this week with a $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI's non-profit arm. Although OpenAI's board rejected the offer, the rivalry between Musk's xAI and OpenAI continues to grow. Musk has voiced his discontent with OpenAI's shift from its original mission, saying, “OpenAI is meant to be open source, non-profit and now they changed the name to closed for maximum profit AI.”

Furthermore, with the emergence of cost-effective AI models from Chinese startup DeepSeek, competition in the AI sector has intensified, adding another layer of pressure on Western AI firms like OpenAI and xAI.

By Vafa Guliyeva