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The next flagship AI model from Elon Musk ’s AI caller , xAI , might be come on release .
Over the weekend , severaluserson X , includingreverse engineer Alexey Shabanov , describe gain access to Grok 3 , the replacement to xAI ’s current model , Grok 2 , via X ’s Grokchatbot app . Before their approach was revoked , the substance abuser say that they managed to get the model to react to a kitchen range of queries , include logical logical thinking and coding - related questions .
grant to the users , Grok 3 was capable to successfullyanswerriddlesandfield requestslike “ Generate HTML and JavaScript code for a line roulette wheel casino . ” The model was n’t utter , however . In the computer code for the line roulette roulette wheel , Grok 3 overlook a few details — and made a programming error .
Breaking 🚨 Grok 3 understands nuanced enigma that ALL of open ai models have failed to get good . The only other model to get this question correct was Deepseek R1 🤯
Grok 3 is beating o1 ? Has@xaicaught up this fast ? pic.twitter.com/WLSpM00qHK
— Chris ( @chatgpt21)January 26 , 2025
Shabanov enunciate that he got Grok 3 to reveal its scheme prompt , which is the set of instructions that define how the model should behave . One interesting detail is that the prompt appears to explicitly state Donald Trump is the forty-seventh Chief Executive of the U.S. , which could be a hardcoded hole forGrok ’s politicalhallucinations .
Grok 3 , which has been in development for several months , wasoptimistically slatedfor release last year , according to Musk — but drop that deadline . Early this month , Musksaidthat Grok 3 had completed pre - training , a crucial stage in a model ’s development cps , and that heexpectedGrok 3 to come in January or former February .
xAI has been using its enormous data center in Memphis — a data heart containing around 100,000 GPUs — to train Grok 3 . In aposton X , Musk claimed that Grok 3 was trained with “ 10x ” more compute than Grok 2 .
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Grok , xAI ’s result to models like OpenAI’sGPT-4oand Google’sGemini , can analyze images and respond to questions , and power a number of lineament on X. Grok recentlygained standalone apps , and it may before long get a “ vocalisation mode ” that reads the model ’s responses loudly .
When Musk announced Grok roughly two long time ago , he pitched the chatbot as high-strung , unfiltered , and anti-“woke ” — in ecumenical , uncoerced to do controversial questions other AI systems wo n’t . He delivered on some of that hope . Told to be vulgar , for example , Grok will blithely oblige , spewing profanities and colorful language you would n’t get a line fromChatGPT .
But Grok as it exists todayhedgeson political guinea pig and wo n’t crosscertain bounds . In fact , one studyfound that Grok leans to the political left wing on topics like transgender rights , diversity programs , and inequality .
Musk has blamed the behavior on Grok ’s training data point — public entanglement pages — andpledgedto “ shift Grok closer to politically neutral . ” Evidence of an “ Unhinged Mode ” for Grokrecently emerged , which will provide response “ intend to be objectionable , unfitting , and nauseous , ” accord to an FAQ page on xAI ’s website .
Musk has also said that Grok 3 ’s preparation data incorporatesfilings from royal court case , improving its ability to understand legal subject .
