Elon Musk Announces Free Access to Grok 3 ‘Until Servers Melt’

xAI CEO Elon Musk recently announced the launch of the company’s latest LLM Grok 3. In a new blog post, xAI has provided in-depth technical details on performance benchmarks. 

“Grok 3 now available for free until our servers melt,” read an official post on X. The blog also mentioned that X Premium+ and SuperGrok users will get increased access to Grok 3, along with early access to advanced features like Voice Mode.

“It took us 122 days to get the first 100K GPUs up and running, which was a monumental effort. We believe it’s the largest fully connected H100 cluster of its kind. But we didn’t stop there. We decided to double the cluster size to 200K,” said Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, on the livestream.  

Grok is currently the No. 1 app on the app store, surpassing ChatGPT and DeepSeek. 

During the live-streamed event, the company showcased Grok 3’s impressive performance and suggested a future where AI not only understands the universe but also helps understand it. 

“If all goes well, SpaceX will send Starship rockets to Mars in two years with Optimus robots and Grok,” Musk further said.

The name Grok, inspired by Robert A Heinlein’s novel Stranger in a Strange Land, reflects a deep understanding of understanding and empathy. Independent benchmarks showed that Grok 3 outperformed Google Gemini 2 Pro, DeepSeek V3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GPT-4 in tests such as AIME, GPQA, and LCB.

Musk also confirmed that the company is launching a game studio to reshape the gaming industry. Announcing xAI’s latest model, Grok-3, Musk said, “We’re launching an AI gaming studio at xAI. If you’re interested in joining us and building AI games, please join xAI.”

Notably, Musk’s X is in talks to raise money from investors at a valuation of at least $44 billion. According to Bloomberg, the money will be spent on initiatives such as payments and video products and will help pay down some of the social media company’s huge debt load. 

In December, xAI completed a $6 billion Series C funding round, attracting investments from prominent firms such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16Z), BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA and AMD.