At the Dubai World Government Summit on February 13, 2025, Elon Musk had a conversation with UAE Minister of State Omar Sultan Al Olama about the future of AI.
While DeepSeek shocked the global AI circle with its high efficiency and low cost, and the GPT series continued to lead the development of AI, Musk dropped a shocking news:
xAI will launch a new generation of AI model Grok 3 in one to two weeks, and the power of this model, in his words, is “so strong that it’s scary.”
“Grok 3 has very, very strong reasoning capabilities. According to the tests we have conducted so far, Grok 3’s performance exceeds any published model we know of.” Musk said in the conversation, “Sometimes, it’s so powerful that it’s even scary, and it can come up with some completely unexpected and to-the-point solutions.”
In the current global AI competition landscape, on the one hand, China’s newcomer DeepSeek is rapidly rising with its high-efficiency and low-cost technology route, and on the other hand, technology giants such as OpenAI’s GPT series and Google’s Gemini are continuing to invest heavily in research and development. Musk’s statement this time is undoubtedly a strong challenge to all players. He emphasized that Grok 3 uses the largest computing power and a large amount of synthetic data for training, which will help it surpass existing models in all aspects.
More strikingly, Musk even predicted that this may be “the last time AI is better than Grok.” In his view, Grok 3 will not only redefine the upper limit of AI, but may also become an important turning point in the history of AI development.
