Grok 3 does not arrive and Xai is staying behind

In the last hours we have known The offer Elon Musk has made Not by OpenAi as such, but for the one by the non -profit association (nonprofit) that controls it. That has unleashed a debate about the true reasons for this offer, but also leaves a question in the candlestick: in what situation is Elon Musk in the AI ​​segment?

Hi, Xai. Elon Musk carries in a Open war with Sam Altman for years, and in fact In April 2023, Xai created to develop their own AI models. Since then the company has launched some AI models and made striking advances with Grokbut it seems to be left in many lands. In others, yes, it surprises.

Grok was sarcastic … In November 2023 XAI Grok presentedthe AI ​​model that competed with Chatgpt and did it with a striking characteristic: had a sarcastic tone. From its launch and for months Grok It was only available for X subscribers.

… and Grok 2 has no censorship. In August 2024 the new version was presented, Grok 2more advanced and powerful. However, what caught the attention of this model was its apparent lack of censorship. Thus, it is possible Generate images of any kind, including Deepfakes of famous peoplesomething that other models do not allow. Elon Musk and XAI announced in December 2024 that They opened the model To all X users without having a payment subscription, something that undoubtedly promoted its use and popularity.

Grok 1 is “Open Source” (but Grok 2 No). One of Grok’s striking features is that Elon Musk shared this project as Open Source. The gigantic original model, of 314,000 million parameters (314b) was then four times larger that calls 2, the other great reference in Open Source models, with 65b size. The funny thing is that Grok 2 is not: it is not in the Official XAI repository In Github, and there is no news that the same thing that happened with his predecessor will happen.

Investment rounds. In November 2024 Elon Musk got lift 5,000 million dollars For XAI, who joined the round of 6,000 million dollars that raised in May 2024 and at least two other planned rounds According to Crunchbase. The firm certainly seems to have notable funds, but be careful, because it is surely burning them, as with OpenAi.

100,000 NVIDIA GPUS. Last summer Musk lit “The most powerful the world of the world“, which apparently was baptized With the name of Colossus and that has 100,000 GPUS NVIDIA H100. It is supposed to be used to train its new model of AI, Grok 3, and of course having that computing power is theoretically a guarantee to stay competitive with its rivals.

Where is Grok 3? But the truth is that Grok 3 still does not appear, and that Musk promised to have it ready in December. Musk Indian In January that Grok 3 “will arrive soon” and that the pre-training stage was complete and had used 10 times more computation capacity than with Grok 2. In Tom’s Hardware they also point out that XAI has used the data generated by users of X for that training.

Reasoning models and AI agents. The great unknown is what will happen with XAI in two areas where its competitors are advancing to forced marches. Deepseek R1 has promoted the Free availability of reasoning models, but there are also several AI companies that have already shown agricultural models such as Operator of OpenAi or Computer Use of Anthropic. That XAI knows does not have alternatives at the moment.

The rear. All this makes it clear that today Xai continues to rely in most proposals in the market. His models are not the best, he has no reasoning models or public agents, and Musk seems to be more interested in putting the Zancadilla to Altman already OpenAi than to get XAI to lead this technological career. Even so, surely there will be news of the company soon, and it will be then that we can value the real situation of it.

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