Grok 3: The AI That’s Never Arriving!!
Oh, Grok 3, where art thou? Elon Musk, the man who promised us flamethrowers for fun and Mars vacations by now, has done it again—announcing, hyping, and, inevitably, delaying.
Let’s rewind. Last summer, Musk, in his infinite wisdom and trademark X-posting style, assured the world that Grok 3, xAI’s brainchild and supposed rival to GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, would be the AI leap to end all leaps. We’re talking a supermodel (of AI, at least) that could analyze images, answer your burning questions, and probably suggest the best memes to reply to your ex’s texts. By year’s end, Musk proclaimed, this marvel—trained on a modest 100,000 H100 GPUs (read: a stack of hardware so beefy it would make a gamer weep)—would “really be something special.”
Fast forward to today: january 2, 2025. No Grok 3. No rollout fanfare. Not even a cryptic tweet about how delays are innovation’s best friend. Just deafening silence from the Memphis GPU mothership.
Oh, wait! There is news! Just not the kind that inspires confidence. Thanks to some code sleuthing by AI enthusiast Tibor Blaho, it seems xAI is pivoting to release something called “Grok 2.5” first. Yes, folks, half a Grok. The kind of naming convention that screams, “We’re not quite ready, but here’s a snack while you wait for the main course we forgot to cook.”
For those keeping track, Grok 2.5 is like promising a tesla Roadster but delivering a slightly shinier Prius. It’s an intermediate step, a shrug of a product, the software equivalent of “we’re still working on it, okay?” Meanwhile, the phrase “major leap forward” echoes in the background like a punchline to a joke we’re not sure Musk intended to make.
So, what gives? Is Grok 3 stuck in some AI purgatory, arguing with itself about whether it even exists? Or is it simply on Musk Standard Time—where deadlines are like speed limits on the Autobahn, more suggestion than rule?
Either way, AI enthusiasts and skeptics alike are left wondering: Will Grok 3 ever see the light of day, or will it join the growing list of Muskian vaporware alongside Hyperloop Phase 100 and Colonize Mars by 2020? Only time—and perhaps a few more X posts—will tell.