Musk launches 'scary smart' AI chatbot - Latest News
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company unveiled on Monday the latest version of its chatbot, Grok 3, which the billionaire hopes will find traction in a highly competitive sector contested by the likes of ChatGPT and China's DeepSeek. The launch comes as the world's richest man is deploying the enormous powers granted him by U.S. President Donald Trump to restructure and dismantle federal agencies.
The unprecedented cost-cutting drive has raised conflict-of-interest questions, given that many of those agencies have regulatory oversight on elements of Musk's sprawling business empire.
Grok 3: A Game Changer
"Grok is to understand the universe," Musk said at the start of the Grok 3 launch presentation. "We're driven by curiosity about the nature of the universe — that's also what causes us to be a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct." Musk has promoted Grok 3 as "scary smart," with 10 times the computational resources of its predecessor that was released in August last year.
The Competitive Landscape
"Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities, so in the tests that we've done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that's been released, that we're aware of, so that's a good sign," Musk said in a video call last week with the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
Musk's Influence and The Future
Musk has become a key figure in the administration, as one of Trump's closest advisers and the head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has begun a radical overhaul of the U.S. government bureaucracy.
Global Implications
Grok 3, Russia and the United States will name teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine, the powers decided on Tuesday in discussions that drew a rebuke from Kiev over its exclusion. The residential property price index (RPPI) rose by 31.9 percent annually but declined by 7.2 percent in real terms in January, data from the Central Bank showed on Feb. 18. Houston Rockets center Alperen Şengün was named an NBA All-Star for the first time in his career on Thursday.
