Elon Musk's XAI Unveils 'Scary Smart' Grok-3 AI Chatbot | Mira Murati Launches AI Firm

Elon Musk's AI startup, XAI, has introduced its latest artificial intelligence model...Grok 3...claiming it outperforms rivals like OpenAI and China's DeepSeek. Early tests showed Grok 3 excelling in math, science, and coding. Musk described the model as "scary smart" at Dubai's World Governments Summit, highlighting its powerful reasoning abilities. In another development, Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati has launched a new AI startup-Thinking Machines Lab-bringing along about 30 top researchers and engineers from OpenAI, Meta, and Mistral. Notably, two-thirds of her team are former OpenAI employees, including Barret Zoph, who left OpenAI the same day as Murati and will now serve as the startup's technology chief. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman also joins as chief scientist, having left OpenAI for Anthropic last year to focus on AI alignment. Thinking Machines Lab aims to develop AI systems that encode human values and offer broader applications than existing competitors. Watch The World Report for the latest updates.