Grok 3 launch: First reactions pour in for the ‘smartest AI on earth’

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI released its much-anticipated flagship model Grok 3 on Tuesday, showing off new capabilities for the Grok iOS and web applications.Early users flooded the internet with reviews of the new offering, which claims to be the “smartest AI on the planet”, a tall claim in a hyper-competitive fight just recently joined by China.

Andrej Karpathy, chief executive at Eureka Labs and former director of AI at Tesla, was given early access to Grok 3, after which he noted that Grok 3’s “Thinking” features are…