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The race to build the best large language model is well underway. And Elon Musk’s xAI wants to be on the leading edge of it.
What’s happening:
- Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has just released the latest version of their large language model Grok 3
Why it matters:
- Grok 3 has quickly soared to being the most popular free productivity mobile app in the United States of America, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other highly notable artificial intelligence models available in the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store
Going deeper:
- Grok 3 has been breaking new records for benchmarks in math, science and coding as well as outperforming highly popular artificial intelligence models in logical tasks, including both ChatGPT-4o and DeepSeek
- xAI has been rapidly raising capital to be able to scale up their artificial intelligence infrastructure and engineering talent, previously raising a $6B USD financing round which saw participation from Valor Equity Partners and even the Qatar Investment Authority
The intrigue:
- xAI has also been leveraging one of the largest GPU clusters in the entire world for Grok 3, which is compromised of more than 100,000 Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) H100 GPUs