Elon Musk speaks next to US President Donald Trump (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, February 11, 2025. Picture: Reuters, Kevin Lamarque
BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk said on Saturday that his xAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot and ChatGPT challenger Grok 3 would be released with a live demo at 8pm Pacific time on Monday (0400 GMT on Tuesday).
Earlier this week, Musk said Grok 3 was in the final stages of development and would be released in about a week or two.
"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," he said in a video call addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Thursday.
The billionaire tech mogul founded xAI as a challenger to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google. Musk also co-founded OpenAI.
On Monday, a consortium of investors led by Musk said it had offered $97.4 billion to buy the assets of OpenAI's non-profit, in another salvo from the world's richest man against the artificial intelligence start-up.
OpenAI has said it wants to become a for-profit organisation to secure the capital needed for developing the best AI models.
Musk sued OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others in August and has asked a US district judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition to a for-profit entity. OpenAI said this week Musk's bid clashes with his lawsuit.
"I think the evidence is there in that OpenAI has gotten this far while having at least a sort of dual profit, non-profit role. What they're trying to do now is to completely delete the non-profit, and that seems really going too far."
UAE AI Minister Omar Al Olama, who was interviewing Musk at the conference, said they would partner on "Dubai Loop", an underground high-speed transport system that Musk likened to a wormhole. Al Olama did not give details.
- REUTERS