Elon Musk on Thursday claimed that his latest version of generative AI, Grok 3, is “outperforming” all rival chatbots and will be released by the end of the month.
The billionaire started his artificial intelligence startup xAI in 2023 and launched Grok as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
“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 during a video call addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
Musk called Grok 3 “scary-smart,” saying the bot has been able to come up with “not obvious solutions” that people would not anticipate.
“We think it’ll be better than anything else, and then maybe this might be the last time that any AI is better than Grok,” he continued, a challenge to OpenAI’s long dominant ChatGPT.
Musk co-founded OpenAI with its chief executive, Sam Altman, in 2015, but later ties with the firm in 2018 and has since been embroiled in a legal battle with the AI rival.
On Monday, a group of investors led by Musk said it had made a shocking $97.4 billion offer to buy the assets of OpenAI’s nonprofit in an attempt to stop the company from transitioning to a for-profit structure.
Musk, who also runs Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, sued Altman and others in August, and has asked a US district judge to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit structure.
“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,” Musk said on Thursday. “What they’re trying to do now is to completely delete the non-profit, and that seems really going too far.”
Altman had quickly shot down the offer, and seemingly mocked the $44 billion price Musk paid for X, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022.
“No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman wrote in a post on X.
During the video call, Musk also discussed his position running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a newly-created task force that aims to slash federal spending.
On Thursday, he claimed DOGE could reduce government spending by $1 trillion or more.
“Maybe the economy could grow at 4 or 5% potentially, in terms of real useful goods and services output, and government spending can be reduced by about 3 or 4% of the economy, about maybe a trillion dollars or more, and the net effect of that would be no inflation from 2025 to 2026 so that would be quite remarkable,” Musk said.
Speaking on international affairs, Musk told the Dubai audience that the United States has been too “pushy” in the past and should “mind its own business.”
“I think we should, in general, leave other countries to their own business,” he said.
His comments come as President Trump has continued to float his controversial Gaza redevelopment plan, which would include displacing Palestinians and turning the strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
The United Arab Emirates artificial intelligence minister, Omar Al Olama, who was interviewing Musk during the conference, also said the UAE and Musk would partner on “Dubai Loop,” an underground high-speed transit system that Musk compared to a wormhole.
