Grok 3 is officially the Best AI chatbot in the world!
This is HUGE News.
But here's where it gets interesting.
@xai was able to do this by betting that "scaling laws" would hold.
What does that mean?
It means that if you have a bigger unified AI supercomputer to train with, you can create a smarter base AI system.
This fact is TERRIFYING for every other company and nation in the world working on frontier AI models because
@xai already has the world's biggest unified training cluster, and it's growing much faster than anyone can keep up with.
It only took 4 months for xAI to build a working, unified training cluster of over 100k
@nvidia H100s.
The previous largest was ~30k H100s, so they more than tripled the world's best.
But xAI didn't stop there.
Within 3 months after completion of the first 100k cluster, they were able double it to 200k (or an equivalent amount of higher performance GPUs).
This lead in training cluster size looks unassailable.
@elonmusk's unparalleled execution makes him one of Jensen Huang's favorite customers, which means xAI will get first priority when NVIDIA starts shipping their next generation of bigger, better, and faster GPUs.
And that's not all.
xAI is also MUCH FASTER at getting new GPUs added to their cluster once they've been received than any other company.
Between their existing lead, their ability to acquire next generation GPUs before competitors, and their lightning fast speed in putting those new GPUs to work in training, how is anyone supposed to compete with xAI?