Musk launches Grok-3 AI chatbot to compete with OpenAI and DeepSeek.

Elon Musk's xAI unveiled Grok-3, claiming it's the smartest AI, outperforming competitors in math, science, and coding benchmarks.

So Elon Musk, being Elon, just unveiled his new AI model, Grok-3, and he’s claiming it’s the "smartest AI on Earth." This thing is straight-up flexing, beating giants like Google Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4o in math, science, and coding tests.

With over 10 times the computing power of the last version, Grok-3 finished pretraining in January. Musk, alongside his team, dropped the news during a live stream, promising constant improvements. He even said, “You’ll see changes literally within 24 hours.” Buckle up, because this AI race just got a whole lot more intense!

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