xAI is promoting Grok 3 as the best model on the market, claiming it surpassed competitors from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepSeek on key benchmarks. Grok 3 did perform well under the codename "chocolate" in Chatbot Arena, which pits chatbots against each other in blind performance tests.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI debuted its updated Grok-3 model, showcasing a version of the chatbot technology to challenge OpenAI days after the billionaire’s unsolicited cash bid to buy the company was rejected.

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has introduced Grok 3, the latest version of its chatbot model, which Musk describes as the most advanced AI system yet. xAI claims Grok 3 outperforms rival AI models from Alphabet’s Google Gemini, DeepSeek’s V3, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o in benchmarks for math, science, and coding.