Musk released "the smartest AI on the planet", or is it backed by the Chinese? DeepSeek with the Sunrise Paper

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Grok 3 launch

preface

Since "AI fortune telling" became popular all over the world, people's discussion of DeepSeek has not slowed down, and Musk said that he will soon release an AI model that is better than DeepSeek.

On the evening of February 17, Musk really released a so-called "smartest AI on the planet" - Grok 3 chatbot.

From this point of view, Musk does not want to lag behind in the artificial intelligence market, but it is surprising that one-third of the team that developed Grok 3 is Chinese.

Live streaming footage

As for the release of Musk's claim to be "the smartest AI on the planet", DeepSeek didn't seem to have much reaction, and released an article on the same day.

So why is Musk's AI called "the smartest on the planet"? What is the difference between it and DeepSeek?

"The smartest AI on the planet"

On February 17, local time, Musk's AI company launched a live broadcast through social platforms, revealing the artificial intelligence they had just developed - Grok 3.

Elon Musk

You must know that China's artificial intelligence model DeepSeek has just set off a wave of AI, and Musk's side immediately followed suit, which can't help but make people sigh that the competition in the artificial intelligence market is really fierce.

Nowadays, countries are constantly launching more advanced AI products, so why does Musk dare to call his artificial intelligence "the smartest AI on the planet"?

During the live press conference, Musk came up and said that the goal of their Grok development is to understand the universe, which is a big topic.

Elon Musk

In Musk's view, Grok 3 is "terrifyingly smart", using synthetic data training, and also has a self-correcting mechanism design to avoid AI generating false or misleading information.

This is a problem for most departments of AI today, and when some AI models are used in the early days, people will find that AI will always talk about it.

GPU drivers

Moreover, Musk's Grok 3 is powered by 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, which has 10 times the computing power of the Grok 2 released last year, which can process data more efficiently.

During the live broadcast, Musk's team asked Grok 3 to generate a 3D animation that showed many details of a space launch, which required a lot of complex physics.

In addition, Musk's team is also continuing to develop voice interaction features, which can facilitate the user's conversational experience, and the goal is to make the user feel like they are talking to someone.

Performance comparison chart

In order to prove that Grok 3 is "the smartest AI on the planet", Musk directly showed a set of performance comparison charts at the press conference, comparing Grok 3 with some earlier AI models.

However, because it is not fully open at the moment, it is only open to users who pay for subscriptions, so it is not yet possible to determine whether it is the "smartest" or not.

The above content is based on a report by Hunan Daily on February 18, 2025

Regardless of whether the performance of the Grok 3 is as strong as Musk said, the Grok 3 has indeed earned enough attention after a wild boast, and attentive netizens have also discovered another interesting thing.

In the live broadcast of the press conference, many people have found that two of the people sitting with Musk are Chinese faces, and they are still sitting in the C position.

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In fact, not only the two Chinese scientists in the live broadcast, but also the entire team that developed Grok 3, one-third of which were Chinese, became another focus.

First of all, there is a Chinese sitting in the live broadcast room of the press conference, whose real name is Wu Yuhuai, who has been studying in Canada since high school, and he is now the co-founder of xAI after 95.

Wu Yuhuai

And the other is named Jimmy Ba, this Jimmy Ba is even more promising, not only an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, but also a student of the "Godfather of AI", the teacher of Wu Yuhuai mentioned above.

In fact, public information shows that at the beginning of the establishment of xAI, there were 5 Chinese faces among the 12 initial members, in addition to the two mentioned above, there were Yang Ge, Zhang Guodong and Dai Zihang.

Jimmy Ba

Among them, Yang Ge has won the highest honor in the field of undergraduate mathematics, and his philosophy is to make mathematics and AI naturally integrated.

Zhang Guodong graduated from Zhejiang University with a major in information engineering, and later studied for a doctorate at the University of Toronto, specializing in autonomous reasoning of intelligent machines.

xAI 12 initial members

There is also Dai Zihang, who is also a graduate of the Department of Computer Science, these Chinese faces are quite outstanding talents in the field of artificial intelligence, and this can be seen from the fact that Musk can be incarnated as a "nodding machine" in the live broadcast.

Although the lineup of Musk's Grok 3 R&D team is a bit unexpected, it also proves that the Chinese are still up to the task in the field of AI.

The above content is based on a report by Popular Daily on February 19, 2025

Of course, Musk's Grok 3 has made enough gimmicks, and our Chinese DeepSeek is not bad, so how does DeepSeek react to this? How is DeepSeek different from Grok 3?

DeepSeek与Grok 3

In Musk's live broadcast, the "chain of thought" inference mechanism of Grok 3 was highlighted, which can make the AI model more capable of logical response.

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So who is better DeepSeek or Grok 3? The first thing you need to understand is the definition of Grok, which is to fully and deeply understand something.

Although this is similar to DeepSeek's "deep search", the two are obviously not the same level, and DeepSeek has its own views on this.

When asked what they think of Grok 3, DeepSeek said that it is impossible to judge the "intelligence" of the two, but in terms of technical characteristics, both sides have advantages.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek also believes that there is a so-called "technical philosophy" difference between Grok 3 and Grok 3, which is more focused on parameter scale, such as supercomputing clusters, while DeepSeek is more focused on balanced performance.

Therefore, DeepSeek believes that the two cannot directly compare the advantages and inferiority, after all, the "intelligence" of AI cannot be generalized, but the diversity of technologies is undoubtedly a good thing.

The above content is based on a report by Shangguan News on February 18, 2025

Perhaps DeepSeek's evaluation of Grok 3 is based on data, but in the eyes of people, it seems to have a feeling of "heroes cherish heroes" among AIs.

As for the release of Musk's Grok 3, DeepSeek does not seem to have responded officially, but released the latest NSA architecture paper on the same day.

DeepSeek创始人梁文锋

This paper, co-authored by Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, proposes an attention mechanism called NSA, which is called "native sparse attention".

The proposal of this mechanism can achieve an exponential increase in the decoding speed, which plays an extremely important role in the training of DeepSeek.

The above content is based on a report by the financial industry on February 18, 2025

epilogue

Judging from Musk's evaluation of Grok 3, he must occupy a place in the field of AI, and Musk's social platforms, humanoid robots and even brain-computer interfaces can become the "nutrients" of his large models.

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Indeed, in this sense, Grok 3 is like a "rich kid" born with a golden spoon, 100,000 GPU drivers can be used, and Musk will of course claim that he is "the smartest".

However, in this era of rapid AI technology, no one can take the lead, let alone know who will have the last laugh, do you think Musk's Grok 3 is "the smartest AI on the planet"?