On February 17 local time, Musk was asked in a live broadcast whether Grok3 would be open-sourced. He said that the previous version would be open-sourced when the next version was launched. When Grok3 becomes stable, it may take a few months before Grok2 will be open-sourced. (Jin Ten)
Musk and the xAI team said at the Grok3 launch that Grok3 introduced the AI search engine DeepSearch, which xAI described as an early version of an agent-like capability. Musk said the voice mode is still a bit unstable and could be available in about a week, but it's great. xAI engineers say Deepsearch is our first generation of broad proxy tools that not only help engineers, researchers, and scientists write code, but actually help everyone answer questions they encounter on a daily basis.
According to the data released at the Grok3 launch event, Grok3 outperformed OpenAI's GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Deepseek V3, and Gemini 2 Pro in math, science, and programming benchmarks.