Elon Musk’s xAi, just released Grok 3, trained on synthetic data and 10x increase in computational power than Grok 2 aims to revolutionise the AI Competition.
Grok 3 latest capabilities questions the competition on enhanced logical reasoning, advanced coding capabilities and superior scientific knowledge. Its design focuses on transparency, scalability and technological proficiency, which makes it particularly strong in complex problem-solving task.
Following are the 3 key features you need to know about Grok 3 when comparing to its competitors:
Step by Step Reasoning – Think Mode
Grok 3 introduces the “Think Mode” that allows it to reason through problems step by step, which makes it thinking process visible to the users.
As because it is trained on massive compute power, 10 to 15x better than Grok 2, so with such computational power it aims to provide the answer with advance reasoning capabilities including the ability to run multiple thought chains, self corrections & evaluate it’s reasoning.
DeepSearch
xAI Introduces “DeepSearch” as their future search engine which aims to improve the processing of information via AI methods. It search and synthesise data from the Web and X, and provides transparent and contextually rich responses. Using thinking it does provides the synthetic data to be followed and cross-checked for additional transparency.
It’s competitors also provides search functionality over a problem, but Grok 3’s integration with X and it’s transparency has an edge over them.
Advantages of it’s DeepSearch:
- Objective Responses
- Reliable on sensitive topics
- Speed
- Cost
How Grok 3 DeepSearch is different than Perplexity?
Perplexity is a search engine that also uses AI to answer questions by pulling data from websites and citing sources. Both tools aim to provide thorough answers but are different in several ways:
Data Source
Grok uses X to synthesise data along with the web, which might give him an edge for current events or social media trends. Whereas Perplexity searches the web broadly but doesn’t have same integration like Grok.
Reasoning & Transparency
Grok recently occupied with its new mode called, “Think” which gives step by step reasoning to the questions asked. Perplexity however gives the sources but doesn’t provide the reasoning.
Cost
Grok’s DeepSearch is a part of X premium+, costing a subscription of $16/month.
Perplexity’s deepsearch is free for all user, which is a big plus for accessibility.
Focus on Technical Domains
Grok 3 has achieved a record-breaking benchmark performance on technical domains, surpassing 1400 score in Chatbot Arena.
It is optimized for technical reasoning, excelling in mathematical solutions, coding, creative writing. It has been evaluated on several benchmarks, showing impressive results. In xAI launch, grok outperformed Gemini-2 Pro, DeepSeek V3, GPT 4o and Claude 3.5 sonnet in Math (AIME), science (GPQA), and coding tasks (LiveCodeBench).
It has also achieved a record breaking ELO score of 1400, outperforming all other models accross all categories which includes comparatively hard prompts, performances of systems in overall, hardcore coding, complex mathematical problems and impressively, instruction following.
Competitive Edge & Conclusion
We all know that xAi got in to the AI game a bit late, but impressively it’s already making waves in this domain. With Grok 3’s cool features and ton of computing power they’ve already zoomed past the older models. They have included 100k+ Nvidia’s H100 GPU’s, this smart move is breaking the records and showing the world what’s possible.
The “Think” mode, “Big Brain” mode and then the “DeepSearch” all emerging and contributing to Grok’s legacy building, representing a significant leap forward in Artificial Intelligence, robust infrastructure, advance reasoning and creative task proficiency to redefine the possibilities of AI technologies.
We can aim Grok 3 a top notch, go-to-AI, figuring out the world fast, clear & free, at-least for now.
