Elon Musk's artificial intelligence
startup, X A.I. has showed off its updated Grok three
model technology that the billionaire says is, quote, The smartest A.I.
on Earth Matt Bloxham from Bloomberg Intelligence
joins me now to assess whether or not that claim is true.
How big is this moment for the release in terms of ancients of moving
things forward? Has done it.
Has it moved the dial on the developments and innovations around AI?
Yeah, I mean, I think it's definitely moved the dial, but how much?
Well, we just have to wait and see. I mean, this is like very early stage.
It was only launched within the last hour or two.
And access to it is going to be limited initially to premium plus subscribers on
the platform, which is a $22 a month subscription.
But certainly some of the claims they're making and the demonstration that they
gave earlier is pretty impressive given his love of space.
He asked Grok plot a course for a rocket from Earth to Mars and back again.
So kind of keeping things relevant to Space X and yeah, they're claiming that
it matches and beats the other popular models like Claude and ChatGPT on a lot of
kind of complex reasoning and calculation issues.
So yeah, it's the next step forward.
Yeah.
And as you say, we'll have to see whether independent assessments verify,
verify the claim that Musk is making, that it beats many of its competitors
talking, talking, which of course, open AI is prominently amongst them.
Does does this put Sam Altman on the back foot?
To some extent? Is Sam Altman of Open AI out now
playing catch up to Musk? Yeah, a little bit.
But I think this is a bit like a kind of multi dimensional game of ping pong.
You know, somebody has the ball and then it's up to somebody else to kind of take
things forward. And we've seen that very recently with
deepseek launching and now we have three.
There's a chatGPT in the pipes.
I'm sure we're going to see further developments from Meta and
Gemini. So, you know, I think this is the kind
of the definitive statement in the world of generative AI and these kind of chat
bots.
There's a lot more to come from all of
Musk's competitors on this. Yeah, very, very pivotal kind of
software technology..
