Is it FUD or is it just another AI competition increase? Elon Musk plans to unveil Grok-3 afternoon, putting xAI’s enormous computing facilities to the exam against business leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic, while claiming that it’s “scary wise.”
But his article on X only seemed to inspire Musk’s blood enemy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who responded immediately by claiming his future design, GPT4.5, is tantalizingly close to AGI. But how near is it to being released?
Altman had lately challenged Musk to put up or shut up:” Really compete by building a better product”, he told . And Musk seems determined to demonstrate that he can do that evening.
Musk praised his brand and claimed it “outperforms anything else that has come out ( to date )”.
Of course, specialists and AI fanatics took this actually, especially considering xAI’s versions have been very unsatisfying. If it turns out to be true, Grok-3 may put a lot of pressure on the Artificial business. That is, until OpenAI 4.5 falls.
We’re about to discover what a broken group may send with a much larger cluster than GPT-4 was trained on, according to Mark Teneholtz, mind of AI at the modeling software Predelo.
Tenenoltz made reference to the 100, 000 Nvidia HGX H100 GPUs that xAI used to train its future designs in the Colossus Supercluster. First, Altman said GPT-4.5 may fall within weeks, though given his post earlier today, possibly OpenAI is moving up the timeline to steal Musk’s thunder.
With billions of dollars in game and now embarrassed by China’s DeepSeek, OpenAI can’t afford to sit still. When a Twitter user urged Sam Altman to conquer Grok-3 with a surprise launch, Altman replied that “wouldn’t become quite good”.
GPT-4.5, codenamed Orion, represents OpenAI’s last “non-chain-of-thought” model before the company unifies its AI capabilities in GPT-5. It’s been trained using synthetic data from the o1 reasoning model, which could explain the AGI-like qualities Altman reported.
Grok-3, being so powerful at reasoning, seems to follow the same path.
But not everyone’s buying the hype. Benjamin De Kraker, an xAI employee quit last week after the company threatened to fire him for ranking Grok-3 below ChatGPT-o1 and ChatGPT-o3 in coding performance. The ranking, which he stressed was his personal opinion, sparked immediate backlash from xAI leadership—despite Elon Musk saying it was weird.
Charles Hoskinson, the creator of Cardano, quickly offered him a position.
A prominent leaker known as “@Iruletheworld”, who got famous for actively leaking and posting details about Strawberry and other AI models, claimed Grok-3 would “blow your goddamn mind”. Later, the account changed its name to represent artificial general intelligence ( AGI ).
” It doesn’t guess. It doesn’t fumble logic. It doesn’t need training wheels. it thinks. it reasons. it plans. When you talk to it, you sense the weight of “real intelligence staring back at you,” he wrote on X. This is what occurs when the scale is pushed to the limit. When you stop being cautious and just go for it, it happens.
And xAI employee Frederik Meringdal went even further, suggesting to the leaker that Grok-3 would be good enough to make him change his bio, assuring Grok-3 is beyond AGI, reaching Artificial Super Intelligence.
Musk and Altman are at odds with one another. Musk and OpenAI co-founded in 2015, but Musk left in 2018, after the company rejected his proposal to merge with Tesla. Earlier this year, Musk’s investor group tried to acquire OpenAI with a$ 97.4 billion bid, which Altman rejected. If OpenAI returned to its non-profit roots, Musk threatened to step down.
According to OpenAI, Musk’s departure was the result of his unsuccessful bid to become the CEO. The dispute has since spawned legal action, with Musk suing OpenAI over its Microsoft partnership, claiming it betrayed the original non-profit mission.
Perhaps if one of their companies reaches AGI or Super Intelligence, it can settle this mess.
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