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=== Grok 3 ===
{{Infobox software
| name = Grok 3
| screenshot = 
| caption = 
| developer = [[xAI (company)|xAI]]
| released = {{start date and age|2025|02|17}}
| qid = None
| replaces = Grok-2
| replaced_by = Grok 4
| genre = {{ indented plainlist |
*[[Multimodal learning|Multimodal]]
*[[Large language model]]
*[[Foundation model]]
*[[Reasoning language model|Reasoning model]]
}}
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website = {{url|https://x.ai/blog/grok-3}}
}}

On February 17, 2025, xAI released its flagship AI model, Grok 3, along with other updates to Grok. [[Elon Musk]] stated that Grok 3 was trained with "10x" more computing power than its predecessor, Grok-2, utilizing the massive data center [[Colossus (supercomputer)|Colossus]], containing around 200,000 GPUs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duffy |first=Clare |date=February 18, 2025 |title=Elon Musk debuts Grok 3, an AI model that he says outperforms ChatGPT and DeepSeek |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/tech/grok-3-release-elon-musk/index.html |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=CNN }}</ref> 

The model was trained on an expanded dataset that reportedly includes legal filings, and xAI claims it outperforms [[OpenAI]]’s [[GPT-4o]] on benchmarks such as [[American Invitational Mathematics Examination|AIME]] for mathematical reasoning and GPQA for PhD-level science problems.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mirzazada |first=Elnur |title=Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok 3, its latest flagship AI model |url=https://anewz.tv/science/artificial-intelligence/3045/elon-musks-xai-releases-grok-3-its-latest-flagship-ai-mode/news |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=AnewZ }}</ref> 

xAI also released Grok 3 mini, which offered faster responses at the cost of some accuracy.<ref name="TechCrunch-2025" /> 

Additionally, xAI introduced [[Reasoning language model|reasoning capabilities]] similar to reasoning models like OpenAI’s [[o3-mini]] and [[DeepSeek]]’s R1, allowing users to tap "Think" to enable reasoning or activate "Big Brain" mode for complex problem-solving, which utilized more computing resources.<ref name="TechCrunch-2025" /> "Big Brain" mode was never released for users.

xAI claims that Grok 3 Reasoning surpassed the best version of OpenAI’s o3-mini, o3-mini-high, on several popular benchmarks, including a newer mathematics benchmark called AIME 2025.<ref name="TechCrunch-2025" /> An OpenAI employee criticized xAI's published comparison graph, pointing out that it included the Grok 3 results using the "consensus@64" technique (making 64 runs and selecting the most frequent answer), and only showed the o3-mini-high results without this technique.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=February 22, 2025 |title=Did xAI lie about Grok 3's benchmarks? |url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/22/did-xai-lie-about-grok-3s-benchmarks/ |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=TechCrunch }}</ref> 

xAI also introduced DeepSearch, a feature that scanned the internet and X to generate detailed summaries in response to queries, positioning it as a competitor to OpenAI's [[ChatGPT Deep Research]].<ref name="TechCrunch-2025" /> 

Initially, access to Grok 3 was limited to X’s Premium+ and xAI’s SuperGrok subscribers, with plans to offer it later via xAI’s enterprise API. Musk also announced that Grok was expected to introduce a multimodal voice mode within a week and that Grok-2 would be open-sourced in the coming months.<ref name="TechCrunch-2025">{{Cite web |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=February 18, 2025 |title=Elon Musk's xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/17/elon-musks-ai-company-xai-releases-its-latest-flagship-ai-grok-3/ |access-date=February 18, 2025 |website=TechCrunch }}</ref> 

Hours after the announcement, X raised the price of its Premium+ subscription to $40.00 per month, up from $22.00.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weatherbed |first=Jess |date=February 18, 2025 |title=Elon Musk's xAI adds 'Big Brain' reasoning to Grok-3 |url=https://www.theverge.com/news/614218/elon-musk-xai-big-brain-reasoning-grok-3 |access-date=February 18, 2025 |website=The Verge }}</ref> Grok 3 was made available to free users on February 20, 2025, for a "short time".<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 20, 2025 |title=xAI's Grok 3 is available for free to everyone 'for a short time' |url=https://www.engadget.com/ai/xais-grok-3-is-available-for-free-to-everyone-for-a-short-time-130031943.html |access-date=February 20, 2025 |website=Engadget }}</ref> This access was never disabled, despite being initially described as temporary.

On February 22, 2025, xAI updated the Grok logo yet again, featuring a [[Accretion disk|black hole]] and a new tagline "To understand".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1893226310937252110|title=Elon Musk on X: "New logo, who dis?" / X}}</ref>

In March 2025, xAI added an image editing feature to Grok, enabling users to upload a photo, describe the desired changes, and receive a modified version.<ref name="TechRadar-2025">{{Cite web |author1=Eric Hal Schwartz |date=March 25, 2025 |title=I tried Grok's new AI image editing features – they're fun but won't replace Photoshop any time soon |url=https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/i-tried-groks-new-ai-image-editing-features-theyre-fun-but-wont-replace-photoshop-any-time-soon |access-date=March 25, 2025 |website=TechRadar }}</ref> Alongside this, xAI released DeeperSearch, an enhanced version of DeepSearch that utilizes extended search and more reasoning.<ref name="Decoder-2025">{{Cite web |last=Bastian |first=Matthias |date=March 22, 2025 |title=Grok 3 adds deeper search and AI image editing capabilities |url=https://the-decoder.com/grok-3-adds-deeper-search-and-ai-image-editing-capabilities/ |access-date=March 25, 2025 |website=The Decoder }}</ref>

In April 2025, xAI launched an API for Grok 3. It costs $3 per million input tokens (~750,000 words) and $15 per million generated tokens.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=April 10, 2025 |title=Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/elon-musks-ai-company-xai-launches-an-api-for-grok-3/ |access-date=April 13, 2025 |website=TechCrunch }}</ref> In May 2025, Grok 3 was announced for [[Microsoft Azure]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Warren |first=Tom |date=May 19, 2025 |title=Microsoft is now hosting xAI's Grok 3 models |url=https://www.theverge.com/news/668762/microsoft-grok-3-xai-models |access-date=May 25, 2025 |website=The Verge }}</ref>

In July 2025 Musk announced that Grok had been "significantly improved"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Titcomb |first1=James |title=Musk's 'improved' AI says Hollywood controlled by Jews |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/07/musks-ai-says-hollywood-controlled-by-jews/ |access-date=8 July 2025 |work=The Telegraph |date=7 July 2025}}</ref> and said that users would "notice a difference".<ref name=":0" /> When the chatbot was found to be posting antisemitic content and praising Hitler, days later, some of these changes were reversed.<ref name="grokoffline"/>