Elon Musk led xAI has launched its Grok 3 series of models during a live-stream on Tuesday. The new Grok 3 model is said to have 10x more compute than the last generation and will compete with the likes of ChatGPT 4-o and Gemini 2 Pro.
“Grok 3 across the board is in a league of its own. Even its little brother Grok 3-Mini is reaching the frontier across all the other competitors.” xAI team said during Grok 3 launch.
Apart from the pre-trained model, xAI also launched a two reasoning model Grok 3 reasoning model (beta) and Grok 3 mini reasoning model. Notably, reasoning models are different from pre-trained models as they are meant to mimic human like thinking, meaning they take a bit more time to respond to a query but are also generally more useful for answering complex questions.
“We at xAI believe pre-trained model is not enough. That’s not enough to build the best AI but the best AI needs to think like a human. To contemplate about all the possible solutions, self critique, verify all the solutions, backtrack and also think from the first principle.” xAI said while talking about need for building their reasoning model.
xAI said it has trained Grok 3 Mini reasoning model for a longer time frame than its elder sibling leading to it performing slightly better on some benchmarks. Needless to say, xAI claims that its new reasoning models perform better than OpenAI o1, o3 Mini (High), Gemini Flash thinking and DeepSeek R1 models in Maths, Science and coding benchmarks.
