The competition among Big Tech firms in the LLM space heats up as Grok3, the third-generation Large Language Model (LLM) from Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, claims to outbeat all the powerful LLMs around.
Musk claims that Grok3 comes with very powerful reasoning capabilities even as xAI says that it outbeats Gemini 2 Pro, Chat GPT 4o, DeepSeekV3 and Cloaud 3.5 Sonnet – the most advanced LLMs from its rivals in science, maths and coding.
Grok3 was trained with 10 times more compute than Grok 2, using an extensive GPU cluster in xAI’s data centre in the US, which boasts to have over two lakh GPUs. “It is trained on all human data,” claims Musk, taking part in a demo session he held on the upgraded LLM.
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“The initial impressions of Grok3 are strong and enterprises will add it to their consideration set for many use cases,” Kashyap Kompella, an AI analyst, told businessline.
“We need to dig deeper over the next few weeks but initial benchmarks shared by the xAI team place Grok3 among the top LLMs today. Grok3 incorporates the latest AI advances we have seen in the last year in the industry — reasoning models, test time compute, and advanced search,” he said.
‘Smartest AI’
Abhishek Sengupta, Practice Director, Everest Group, said that Grok3 was being touted as the smartest AI, but the way this space has evolved, its likely to be a transient recognition as some new model outperforms in the not-so-distant future.
“I find mildly exciting about Grok3, is the access to real-time information that it will have — meaning you will get up-to-date responses, rather than responses gated by the expiry date of the training dataset,” he said.
Anushree Verma, Director Analyst at Gartner, said the market starting to shift from general purpose solutions to more customised and performant offerings, reducing model sizes, cost and latency and enabling edge opportunities.
“Further there is an extension via investments in multimodal UIs, AI avatars and emotion AI.
“Now, I see the new releases focusing on the second aspect via multimodal UIs and emotion AI such as in Grok 3,” she said.
“It is available at a premium, it is still a generalist tool and has fun elements to gain attention rather than a specialised one to improve the day-to-day life of its users. The market is shifting to more specialised virtual assistants now. I don’t see it as a disruptor in my opinion,” she said.
