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PremiumGrok 3 launch Updates: Elon Musk's xAI has released the new Grok 3 series of models, including a GPT-4o-like pre-trained model, two reasoning models, and an AI agent called Deep Search.
ALSO READ: Elon Musk teases Grok 3 AI chatbot: ‘Scary smart, set to launch soon!’
Musk claims his AI chatbot is driven by curiosity and a relentless pursuit of truth. Just hours after Elon Musk's xAI unveiled its latest AI model, Grok 3, X almost doubled the price of its Premium+ subscription plan from $22/month to $50/month. This marks the second price hike in recent months, following a previous increase in December 2023.
Grok 3 is expected to be powered by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer which reportedly houses over 1,00,000 Nvidia GPU hours for the purpose of training AI models. It was built in just over eight months.
The more efficient successor to Grok 2 was reportedly trained on synthetic datasets using machine learning techniques such as reinforcement learning, according to a report by Forbes.
ALSO READ: How to use xAI’s Grok web version: Key features, eligibility explained
Reinforcement learning is said to be an effective method to reduce incorrect or imaginary responses provided by AI models, otherwise known as hallucinations. It also significantly reduces the training times of large language models (LLMs).
“This might be the last time that an AI is better than Grok," Musk had said at The World Governments Summit in Dubai recently, in praise of the upcoming LLM’s advanced capabilities.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Despite the price surge in global markets, the Premium+ plan in India remains at ₹1,750/month or ₹18,300/year. Other tiers are priced as follows:
Basic: ₹243.75/month | ₹2,590.48/year
Premium: ₹650/month | ₹6,800/year
The pricing discrepancy across regions has sparked discussions among users.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Just hours after Elon Musk's xAI unveiled its latest AI model, Grok 3, X almost doubled the price of its Premium+ subscription plan from $22/month to $50/month. This marks the second price hike in recent months, following a previous increase in December 2023.
Moreover, the access to Grok AI remains exclusive to Premium and Premium+ subscribers. Stay tuned for more updates!
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: After OpenAI rejected Musk’s $97.4B buyout offer, he’s doubling down on xAI. Musk has sued OpenAI twice, accusing it of straying from its mission. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Musk’s bid as a ploy to “slow us down."
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Despite its strengths, Grok 3 stumbled in creative tasks. Karpathy found it struggled with:
❌ Deciphering Unicode-based “Emoji mystery" puzzles
❌ Generating an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle
❌ Producing clever humor—one of its jokes? “Why did the chicken join a band? Because it had drumsticks and wanted to be a cluck-star!" 😅
For creativity and humor, Grok 3 still lags behind the best models. Can xAI fix this in future updates?
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Karpathy put Grok 3’s “DeepSearch" to the test, and the results were mostly impressive! The AI answered research-oriented queries well, including Apple launch rumors and White Lotus 3 filming locations.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Former Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy tested Grok 3 and was impressed with its "Thinking" mode! He called it "state of the art," noting that it successfully built a Settlers of Catan-style board game webpage—something many AI models struggle with.
Other strong areas? Tic-tac-toe puzzles, complex math problems, and even attempting to solve the legendary Riemann hypothesis! Grok 3 is proving its mettle in high-level reasoning.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: At the Grok 3 launch, Elon Musk claims his AI chatbot is driven by curiosity and a relentless pursuit of truth—even if it challenges political correctness.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Bloomberg reports xAI is seeking $10B in funding, pushing its valuation sky-high. Can Musk’s AI venture take on OpenAI and DeepMind?
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Grok 3 is exclusively available to X Premium Plus subscribers. To access it, users must upgrade to Premium Plus, which unlocks Grok 3's latest AI features.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: In a post on X, Musk said, “All you need to know to understand which company will win a technology competition is look at the first and second derivatives of the rate of innovation"
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: In a post on X, Lex Friedman wrote, “I got to use Grok 3 extensively (early). My mind is blown, very impressive model 🤯 Congrats to Elon and the team for bringing it to life"
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Apart from OpenAI, Perplexity had also recently rolled out a Deep Research model which takes around 3 minutes for a query but is slightly less accurate than the ChatGPT add-on.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: xAI team during the Grok 3 launch said that their new AI agent Deep Search will save hundreds of hours of people's Google time by answering day to day questions.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: “we believe here at Xai free training model that's not enough. That's not enough to build the best AI and the best AI need 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. That's a very important capability. So we believe that as we take the best pre trained model and continue training it with reinforcement learning, we elicit the additional reasoning capabilities that allows the model to become so much better and scale, not just in the training time, but actually in the test time as well. So we already found the model is extremely useful internally for our engineering, saving hours of time, hundreds of hours of coding time. " xAI team member said at the launch
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: “I think we should emphasize that this is kind of a beta like, meaning that you should expect some imperfections at first, but we will improve it rapidly, almost every day. In fact, every day, I think it'll get better. So if you want a more polished version, I'd like maybe wait a week, but expect improvements literally every day. And then we're also going to be providing voice interaction so you can have conversational. In fact, I was trying it earlier today. It's working pretty well, but We need bit more polish, the sort of weight we can just literally talk to about the older person. It's, that's awesome. I think, one of the best experiences of grog. But that's, that's probably about a week away." Elon Musk said at the Grok 3 launch.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Elon Musk and his team announced that a new website for Grok has been launched at Grok.com. Meanwhile, the Grok 3 update will also be available on the Grok iOS app. While Musk and team did not talk about a Grok Android app but we see that the app is now available to pre-register on the Google Play Store.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: “So the good news is, we've been working tirelessly to actually release all of these features that we've shown you, the Grok 3 base model with amazing chat capabilities that's really useful, that's really interesting to talk to, the deep search, the advanced reasoning mode, all of these things. We want to roll them out to you today, starting with the premium plus subscribers on x. So that's the first group that will initially get access, make sure to update your x app if you want to see all of the advanced capabilities, because we just released the update now as we're as we're talking here, and yeah, if you're interested in getting early access to Grok, then sign up for Premium Plus. " an xAI staff member said during the presentation
"And also, we're announcing that we're starting a separate subscription for Grok that we call super Grok, for those who are those real Grok fans that one of the most advanced capabilities and earliest access to new features." the staffer added
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: During the FAQ at Grok 3 launch, Musk said Grok is whatever users want it to be. The xAI owner went on to add that people are going to fall in love with Grok, adding that its 1000% possible.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Grok voice assitant is currently being polished and will be available to use for users in the coming weeks, says an xAI staff.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: “It really should save you a lot of time. So something that might take you half an hour or an hour of researching on the web or searching social media, you can just ask it to go do that and come back, and 10 minutes later, it's done an hour's worth of work for you. That's really what it comes down to, exactly, and maybe better than you could have done it yourself. "
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: xAI is catching with the competition at the Grok 3 launch and the latest causality to that is ChatGPT like Deep Search.
“Deep Search that is the first generation of our broad agents that not just helping the engineers and research and scientists do coding, but actually help everyone to answer questions that you have day to day." an xAI staff said during Grok 3 launch.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: An xAI staff member asked Elon Musk when Grok will be in a rocket and the xAI founder replied two years.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Just like DeepSeek R1 and now ChatGPT o3 Mini, Grok 3 will show a detailed chain of thought, allowing users to take a look as the chatbot is thinking through a problem. Musk confirmed that xAI will obscure the thinking a little bit so that companies cannot just copy the chatbot.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Elon Musk and his team have revealed that Grok 3 will also have reasoning capabilities much like DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o3 Mini.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: As expected, xAI is showing a lot of benchmarks where Grok 3 is showing above Gemini 2 Pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet ,GPT 4o and DeepSeek V3 in Math, Science and coding benchmarks.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Elon Musk while speaking at the Grok 3 launch explained the meaning of the term, saying it means to ‘fully and profoundly understand something’
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Grok 3 presentation has begun with Elon Musk sitting with other members of the team.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: DeepSeek's cost effective open source models have forced AI companies to rethink their strategy especially regarding pricing. Notably, the chatbot had already forced Chinese companies to cut down their prices and more recently even pushed OpenAI's hand.
Notably, after the release of DeepSeek, OpenAI had to rollout its first ever reasoning model for free users, O3 Mini and also offer it at a cheaper cost than its predecessor.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Grok 3 will compete with not just the leading AI models from western AI companies like Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral but also from other Chinese alternatives like DeepSeek and Qwen.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: While Musk is about to launch the latest version of Grok today, the billionaire also tried to buy off the non-profit arm of OpenAI last week. Through his lawyer, Musk put in a $97.4 billion bid to take over the non-profit arm of the company.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Speaking in an interview in 2023, Musk said, “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction,"
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: In a post announcing Grok 3 launch timeline, Musk wrote, “Grok 3 release with live demo on Monday night at 8pm PT. Smartest AI on Earth."
“Will be honing product with the team all weekend, so offline until then" the billionaire added
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Until recently, Grok was only available to paid users, so it is unlikely that Elon Musk's company will suddenly start handing out its flagship AI model for free. What could happen is that Grok 3 may be available to X premium subscribers while the usage limit of Grok 2 could be raised.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Almost 3 hours are left till xAI showcases a demo of Grok 3 and brings its latest foundational model to use for the public. The new model is likely to give a big boost to Elon Musk's company owing to its better reasoning abilities and accuracy. Expect xAI to compare Grok 3 with ChatGPT and the rest on a number of benchmarks showcasing their product to be the better offering out there.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: The latest post on X by Shivon Zillis suggests that Grok 3 will come with voice mode abilities like Google's Gemini or OpenAI's ChatGPT. Notably, both these AI companies offer various voices to interact with the chatbot and X could be looking to employ a similar approach here.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: "Instead of passively listening to an audiobook about physics while doing errands as usual I had an hour long back-and-forth conversation with Ara from Grok 3 about a bunch of scientific topics.
We started with the role of ⚡️in biology and she presented a ton of options for me to rabbit hole down. We somehow ended up on quantum entanglement and by the end I asked her to grill me to make sure I actually understood what she told me." Zilis wrote in a post on X.
“I’ve wanted to deepen my knowledge of physics and other sciences for years but haven’t had time to formally go back to school and have felt too guilty to harass my friends to teach me, and the reality is I learn best through conversations so @grok was my best friend on this one" added Zilis
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Grok 3 launch comes at a time when xAI is facing increasing competition from AI domain, not just from Western companies like OpenAI and Google but from Chinese rivals like DeepSeek. The advent of DeepSeek has led to AI companies rethinking their strategy with OpenAI recently going on to release its first reasoning model for free and following it up with the Deep Research AI launch.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: "Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities. In the test that we have done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that's been released that we are aware of. That's a good sign. In fact, at times, I think Grok 3 is kind of scary smart. You are like wow, this thing is smart, this thing comes up with solutions that you didn't even think, you wouldn't even anticipate." Musk said while talking about the capabilities of Grok 3 last week.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Speaking via video link at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Elon Musk described the AI’s capabilities as “scary smart" and noted that Grok 3 had been trained on synthetic data. He explained that the model is designed to reflect on its own errors, continuously revisiting data to ensure logical consistency.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Grok 3 will be launched at 8:30PM Pacific Time on Monday which translates to 10:00AM India time. Much like other products from Elon Musk's companies, Grok 3 should be debuted via live demo on the xAI handle.
Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Elon Musk led xAI is all set to debut its latest foundational model, Grok 3 which will power the chatbot by the same name and compete with the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and Claude.
The latest LLM from xAI should continue to have unfettered access to the real-time data on X and its reasoning abilities are likely to get a significant boost, meaning Grok could get better at handling more complex problems.
