Billionaire Elon Musk may have been opposed by Openai. But that is not stopping his company, Xai, to make its model of Grok 3 flag available through an API.
It’s been a few months since Xai revealed Grok 3, the company’s response to models like GPT-4o and Openai and Google twins. Grok 3 can analyze images and answer the questions, and strengthens a number of features on Musk’s, X social network, which not so much won Xai in March.
Xai is offering two tastes of Grok 3 on his api: Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with “reasoning” skills. Grok 3 is priced at $ 3 per million signs (750,000 words) fed on the model and $ 15 per million signs created by the model. As for Grok 3 mini, it is $ 0.30 per million entry signs and $ 0.50 per million output signs. Faster versions of Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are available with a significant premium (Grok entrance land 3: $ 5/m, output signs of 25 $/m; Grok 3 mini: $ .60/m Input signs, output sign $ 4/m).
Grok 3 is not exactly free compared to competition. It matches the price of anthropic Claude 3.7, which also offers reasoning skills, and is more expensive than the recently released gemini on Google, which achieves generally higher results than Grok 3 in all known standards of it. (Not for nothing, Xai has been accused of being deceived in his reporting of Grok Standards 3.)
As some users pointed out on X, Grok 3 through Xai API also has a smaller context window than the model is suspected to be capable of supporting. The “context window” refers to how many signs the model can process in a single movement. API maximizes 131.072 signs, or approximately 97,500 words – little by 1 million toens Xai claimed that Grok 3 supported at the end of February.
When Musk announced Grok for approximately two years ago, he raised the model of him as clumsy, non-filtered and anti- “woke up”- in general, ready to answer controversial questions that other systems he does not want. He handed over some of those promises. He said to be vulgar, for example, Grok and Grok 2 would fortunately force, promoting colorful languages that you would probably not hear from the chatgt.
But Grok models before Grok 3 was protected by political entities and would not cross certain boundaries. In fact, one study found that Grok bowed to the political left on topics such as transgender rights, diversity programs and inequality.
Musk has blamed the behavior in Grok’s training data – public websites – and pledged to “move Grok closer to neutral politics”. It is not yet clear whether Xai has achieved that goal, and what the consequences may be.
