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The Guardian - US
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Elon Musk’s startup rolls out new Grok-3 chatbot as AI competition intensifies

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Elon Musk delivers remarks as he joins Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on 11 February. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot that integrates with X, formerly Twitter.

Grok-3 debut comes at a critical moment in the AI arms race as Musk looks to compete with the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google. Musk’s bot has seen less widespread adoption than DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot, which wowed the world weeks ago and caused panic in stock markets, as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

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