Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 3 has surged past Deepseek, earning the second spot among Apple’s US App Store free apps. This leap comes just 12 hours after the successful launch, thanks to the much-historical account of Grok 3 as “the smartest AI on Earth.”
App Store data shows that Grok 3 stands behind Openai’s ChatGpt, which surpasses China’s Deepseek, but still continues to dominate as the world’s top chatbot.
Grok 3 fails hexagon ball bounce test
Not everything is smooth sailing on the Grok 3. Despite the rapid climbing of downloads, the chatbot struggled with coding tasks and followed Openai’s 03-Mini and Deepseek R1 models. One notable obstacle is the “hexagon ball bounce” test. Here I was asked to write a Python program for balls bouncing in a rotating hexagon.
“The Grok 3 is here and it fails a spectacular “Hexagon Ball Bounces” test,” a user named Theo shares on X.
Grok 3 is here and “Hexagon Ball Bouncing” test fails.
– Theo – T3.gg (@theo) February 18, 2025
Musk and Zai Team introduced Grok 3 yesterday at 8pm Pacific Time (11pm Eastern) and are the first to see what Musk described as “the smartest AI on the planet.” In a demo posted to X, Grok 3 showed impressive results in math, science and coding benchmarks, and competitors in key performance tests from competitors such as the Kemini-2 Pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GPT-4o It surpassed.
The primary Grok 3 model is gradually being deployed via the Grok app, but the smaller “Grok 3 Mini” version offers faster response times.
Both models secured the top spots on the AIME’24, GPQA, and LiveCodebench leaderboards, with the Grok 3 landing in the number one position at Chatbot Arena. It also comes with a “inference” variation designed to solve problems through more analytical thinking, similar to Openai’s O3-Mini and Deepseek R1.
The Training Grok 3 takes 10 times more computing power than its predecessor, the Grok 2, and Xai relies on the Colossus SuperComputer, a system equipped with 200,000 H100 GPUs.
Why is it important?
The success of Grok 3 is Xai, just two years ago, as a key contender for the AI space. Still, the competition is not standing still. Openai is preparing to release GPT-4.5, and ultimately released GPT-5. Meanwhile, humanity, Deepmind and Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Deepseek are all working to secure a share in the AI market. The race is intensifying, and the rapid rise of the Glock 3 is just the beginning.
According to Xai, Grok 3 was trained with synthetic data, but Musk says it will help you get back to your own work to find and fix the mistakes. This self-correcting behavior can give you an advantage over other models, and can result in double the error.
You can access Grok 3 through Musk’s social platform X, previously known as Twitter, and possibly through its own app. Xai is pushing to establish itself in the busy AI market, and Grok 3 is a big part of that strategy.
Behind the scenes, Xai reportedly is trying to raise $10 billion, which will result in a valuation of around $75 billion. The plan is to use that money to increase the capacity of the data center and improve the AI model. Musk revealed that Xai is not just here. His goal is to build AI tools that focus on truth and transparency apart from competitors such as Openai and Google.
Late last year, Xai closed its massive $6 billion Series C funding round. This latest investment includes well-known names such as A16Z, BlackRock, Fidelity Management & Research Company.
With tonight’s demonstrations happening, expectations are high. Does Grok 3 respond to the hype and prove that it’s more than just a big story? You’ll understand immediately.
Musk founded Xai in 2023 and later introduced Grok as a direct challenger to Openai’s ChatGpt.
