Elon Musk unveils Grok 3: The ‘smartest AI’ takes on OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic

Billionaire Elon Musk launched Grok 3 today, touting it as the smartest AI ever built. Backed by his team at xAI, Grok 3 was put through a gauntlet of mind-bending challenges, demonstrating advanced reasoning skills and outperforming benchmarks.

Beyond raw intelligence, Grok 3 flaunted a creative edge—dreaming up an entirely new game that fuses Tetris with Puyo Puyo. Now available exclusively to X Premium+ users, the chatbot promises superior reasoning, game design capabilities, and overall performance.

Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk claimed Grok 3 will outshine every existing AI model. Unlike conventional chatbots, Grok 3 is trained on synthetic data and learns from its own mistakes, refining its logic through continuous self-correction.

Grok 3 enters the AI battlefield

Musk’s latest AI powerhouse is taking on industry heavyweights, including OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 and soon-to-launch GPT-5, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.0, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Opus, and Meta’s Llama 3.1. However, a new player is shaking up the landscape—Chinese startup DeepSeek, which has emerged as a formidable rival with its cutting-edge technology and cost-effectiveness.

DeepSeek recently grabbed headlines when its DeepSeek V3 outpaced ChatGPT in Apple’s App Store downloads in the U.S. With a development cost of just $5.6 million, the startup is proving that high-performance AI doesn’t have to come with an astronomical price tag.

xAI enters AI gaming

Musk also announced the launch of an AI gaming studio at xAI, inviting developers and enthusiasts to join in shaping the future of AI-driven gaming.

With the AI race intensifying, Grok 3's arrival sets the stage for a new battle—one where intelligence, creativity, and cost-efficiency will determine the next AI champion.