News Summary

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is nearing the release of its next AI model, Grok 3. Over the weekend, some users reported gaining brief access to Grok 3 via the Grok chatbot app on platform X, allowing them to test its capabilities in logical reasoning and coding tasks. Although Grok 3 answered questions and generated code, it also displayed some inaccuracies, such as programming errors in a roulette wheel code. The model is noted for its political neutrality efforts, although it currently leans left on some issues due to its training data, which includes public web pages and court case filings. Grok 3, developed with ten times the computational power of its predecessor, Grok 2, was expected to launch last year but is now slated for release in early 2025. The model is part of xAI’s strategy to offer an AI system that is edgy, unfiltered, and capable of tackling controversial questions, differentiating itself from other AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini.