Elon Musk announced at the World Governments Summit in Dubai that the next generation of his company's AI chatbot, Grok, may be released in just a few weeks. Musk described the new chatbot as "scary smart" and stated that it had already outperformed all other AI models in testing. The developers of Grok-3 used unique training methods, relying on synthetic data and employing a self-correcting mechanism to maintain logical consistency. The computational demands for training Grok-3 were massive, requiring 200 million GPU hours on xAI's Colossus supercluster. Grok-3's integration with xAI's social media platform, X, allowed it to scrape real-time data and even featured an "Unhinged Mode" that was intended to be objectionable, inappropriate, and offensive. Although Grok-3 is not yet ready for release, it may be launched sooner than OpenAI's GPT-4.5. Competition in the AI space is growing, with Chinese open-source model DeepSeek-V3 emerging as a strong contender. Major AI players are now focusing on reasoning models that can reflect on specific problems and find solutions through extensive thought reasoning. Musk aims to advance towards artificial general intelligence through increasingly sophisticated models and plans to scale xAI's computing infrastructure to 1 million GPUs for future models with trillions of parameters.



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