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Billionaire Elon Musk hasjust been countersued by OpenAI , but that is n’t stopping his AI company , xAI , frommaking its flagship Grok 3 model uncommitted via an API .
It has been several month since xAI unveiledGrok 3 , the company ’s reply to models like OpenAI’sGPT-4oand Google’sGemini . Grok 3 can analyze images and answer to questions , and it power a number of feature on Musk ’s social connection X , whichnot so coincidentally was acquired by xAI in March .
xAI is offering two feeling of its flagship simulation via its API : Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with “ reasoning ” capabilities .
Grok 3 is price at $ 3 per million token ( ~750,000 words ) fed into the manakin and $ 15 per million tokens bring forth by the mannikin . Meanwhile , Grok 3 Mini will cost $ 0.30 per million input relic and $ 0.50 per million output tokens .
Speedier versions of Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini are uncommitted at a premium : $ 5 per million input token and $ 25 per million output souvenir for Grok 3 and $ 0.60 per million input tokens and $ 4 per million production relic for Grok 3 Mini .
Grok 3 is n’t cheap relative to the competition . xAI is tally the pricing of Anthropic’sClaude 3.7 Sonnet , which also offers logical thinking capabilities , but it is more expensive than Google ’s recently releasedGemini 2.5 Pro , which accomplish generally higher score than Grok 3 across democratic AI benchmarks . ( Notably , xAI has been accused ofbeing misleadingin its Grok 3 benchmark reports . )
Asseveral users on X pointed out , Grok 3 via xAI ’s API also has a smaller linguistic context window than the modelling is supposedly up to of defend . ( “ setting window ” refers to how many tokens the model can sue in one go . ) The API maxes out at 131,072 token , or some 97,500 parole — short of the 1 million tokens xAI take that Grok 3 supported in late February .
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When Musk announced Grok more or less two twelvemonth ago , he hawk the AI fashion model as edgy , unfiltered , and anti-“woke ” — in universal , willing to answer controversial questions other AI organisation wo n’t . He redeem on some of that promise . Told to be vulgar , for example , Grok and Grok 2 would merrily oblige , spewing colorful nomenclature you likely would n’t hear fromChatGPT .
But Grok mock up prior to Grok 3hedgedon political subjects and would n’t crosscertain boundaries . In fact , one studyfound that Grok tip to the political left field on matter like transgender rights , multifariousness programs , and inequality .
Musk has pick that behavior on Grok ’s training information — public web page — andpledgedto “ shift Grok secretive to politically indifferent . ” Short of eminent - profile mistakes likebriefly censor uncomplimentary mentions of President Donald Trump and Musk , it ’s not yet clear whether xAI has achieved that goal at the model stratum and what the long - term import might be .
