However, not one to be threatened by emerging developments in the field, xAI founder Elon Musk claims his upcoming chatbot, Grok 3, will be able to outsmart competitors like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, due to its superior reasoning capabilities.
In a session titled ‘Boring Cities, AI, and DOGE’ Musk revealed that Grok 3 is due to be released in a couple of weeks and that it’s “scary smart”.
“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,” – Elon Musk at the World Governments Summit in Dubai
But what makes Grok’s latest model so smart? In the video conference, Musk claimed that Grok 3 was trained on synthetic data, and is capable of reflecting on mistakes by combing through the data to achieve logical consistency.
In contrast, leading US chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT are trained predominantly on real-world data. This training method is understood to help the chatbots grasp human nuances and complexities better, but can open chatbot developers up to accusations of data theft, and could also compromise chatbot performance by limiting the amount of data a company has access to.
