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 AI startup has launched its newest model with some grand claims — including that it can outperform leading models from the U.S. and China.

AI on Monday unveiled its updated Grok 3 artificial intelligence model, as the Elon Musk-led startup works to keep pace with the reasoning and search capabilities in competitors’ models.