Elon Musk’s Real Power Play

February 19, 2025 · 8:15 am ET · Leave a Comment

While political reporters fixate on President Trump’s latest utterances, a story that barely registered in the political press may be far more consequential: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, just unveiled its latest model—and it’s already beating the competition.

According to Bloomberg, xAI’s Grok-3 outperforms Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, DeepSeek’s V3, and even OpenAI’s GPT-4o in key areas like math, science, and coding.

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