{"id":653945,"date":"2025-02-18T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/musk-launches-scary-smart-ai-chatbot\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:06:26","slug":"musk-launches-scary-smart-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/musk-launches-scary-smart-ai-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"#Musk launches &#8216;scary smart&#8217; AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a988aec12\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a988aec12\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/musk-launches-scary-smart-ai-chatbot\/#Trump_and_tech\" >Trump and tech<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2025\/elon-musks-ai-company.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2025\/elon-musks-ai-company.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Elon Musk's AI company is releasing a new version of its chatbot, Grok.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2025\/elon-musks-ai-company.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk's AI company is releasing a new version of its chatbot, Grok\" title=\"Elon Musk's AI company is releasing a new version of its chatbot, Grok.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company is releasing a new version of its chatbot, Grok.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence company unveiled on Monday the latest version of its chatbot, Grok 3, which the billionaire hopes will find traction in a highly competitive sector contested by the likes of ChatGPT and China&#8217;s DeepSeek.<\/p>\n<p>The launch comes as the world&#8217;s richest man is deploying the enormous powers granted him by US President Donald Trump to restructure and dismantle federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented cost-cutting drive has raised conflict-of-interest questions, given that many of those agencies have regulatory oversight on elements of Musk&#8217;s sprawling business empire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grok is to understand the universe,&#8221; Musk said at the start of the Grok 3 launch presentation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re driven by curiosity about the nature of the universe\u2014that&#8217;s also what causes us to be a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk has promoted Grok 3 as &#8220;scary smart,&#8221; with 10 times the computational resources of its predecessor that was released in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>The flagship product of his xAI company was trained on synthetic data and employs self-correction mechanisms that avoid errors \u2013- known as &#8220;hallucinations&#8221; -\u2013 that plague some AI chatbots and lead them to process false or misleading data as fact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities, so in the tests that we&#8217;ve done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that&#8217;s been released, that we&#8217;re aware of, so that&#8217;s a good sign,&#8221; Musk said in a video call last week with the World Governments Summit in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Grok 3 will be made available first to Premium+ paid subscribers of X\u2014formerly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, which Musk acquired in 2022\u2014before rolling out to other users.<\/p>\n<p>The upgraded chatbot enters a crowded field with countries racing to introduce more sophisticated\u2014and cost-effective\u2014AI products.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese startup DeepSeek shocked the global AI industry last month with the launch of its low-cost, high-quality R1 chatbot\u2014a direct challenge to US ambitions to lead the world in developing the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grok 3 is also going up against OpenAI&#8217;s chatbot, ChatGPT\u2014pitting Musk against collaborator-turned-arch rival Sam Altman.<\/p>\n<p>Musk and Altman were among the 11-person team that founded OpenAI in 2015. Created as a counterweight to Google&#8217;s dominance in artificial intelligence, the project got its initial funding from Musk, who invested $45 million to get it started.<\/p>\n<p>Musk left three years later, and then in 2022 OpenAI&#8217;s release of ChatGPT created a global technology sensation\u2014one that did not feature Musk at its center and which made Altman a star.<\/p>\n<p>Their relationship has become increasingly toxic and litigious ever since, with Open AI&#8217;s board last week rejecting a Musk-led offer to buy out the company for close to $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                        <!-- TechX - News - In-article --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trump_and_tech\"><\/span>Trump and tech<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Trump has put technology front and center of his new administration. Tech billionaires featured prominently at his inauguration and he has announced a number of major AI infrastructure initiatives from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has become a key figure in the administration, as one of Trump&#8217;s closest advisers and the head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has begun a radical overhaul of the US government bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Critics warn that Musk&#8217;s proximity to the president poses a major conflict of interest as he guides Trump on laws and regulations around artificial intelligence \u2013- just one sector in which he has a substantial commercial stake.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, xAI has been canvassing potential investors for a roughly $10 billion funding round that would value the company at about $75 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who also acts as boss of SpaceX and Tesla, launched the xAI company in July 2023, shortly after he signed an open letter calling for a pause in the development of powerful AI models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2025 AFP\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>\n                                                <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                Musk launches &#8216;scary smart&#8217; AI chatbot (2025, February 18)<br \/>\n                                                retrieved 18 February 2025<br \/>\n                                                from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2025-02-musk-scary-smart-ai-chatbot.html\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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