Elon Musk on Monday unveiled the latest version of Grok 3, a conversational robot developed by artificial intelligence company xAI that hopes to rival the American ChatGPT and the Chinese DeepSeek.
The launch comes as the Tesla, SpaceX and social network X boss has been tasked by US President Donald Trump with leading a vast program of federal spending cuts that has worried Democrats and unions in particular.
The position as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) raises questions about the risk of conflicts of interest, given that the world's richest man has major public contracts.
"Grok is about understanding the universe," the billionaire said at the unveiling of the latest version of Grok 3.
"We are driven by the search for the nature of the universe. It is also what drives us to be an AI that seeks the truth as much as possible, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct," he said.
The Grok 3 will initially be provided free to X Premium+ subscribers, before being made available to others.
Announcing the launch of Grok 3 on Sunday, Musk said he was introducing "the smartest AI on Earth." “We think it will be better than anything else,” he said last week during a video address to a conference in Dubai.
In December, xAI raised another large funding round worth six billion dollars (5.73 billion euros).
At the time, the company, which develops generative artificial intelligence products and sees itself as a competitor to OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT software launched in 2022, said the funding would be used in particular to bolster “cutting-edge infrastructure.”
On Friday, OpenAI's board of directors announced that it had rejected Elon Musk's $97.4 billion (€93.1 billion) takeover bid.
Elon Musk and the company's CEO, Sam Altman, were part of the 11-person team that founded OpenAI in 2015, with the former responsible for initial funding of $45 million (€43 million).
The industry was disrupted by the January launch of DeepSeek, a generative AI created by a Chinese startup that can match US rivals at a much lower cost.
Launched in July 2023, xAi had already raised six billion dollars in May 2024 and is currently valued at around 50 billion dollars (47.8 billion euros), according to CNBC.
Microsoft (OpenAI's major investor), Google, Amazon, Meta, and other companies have spent billions of dollars and released tools that easily produce high-quality text, images, videos, and other content.
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