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How Grok 3 Just Changed The Internet.

The release of xAI’s Grok in 2023 was thought to be a novelty. Most of the standard folks that make a comment were certain that the company could not possibility catch up to “OpenAI”. It is true that the first versions of Grok the model tried to be humorous and succeeded as much as it may have failed for many. It was certainly not a “serious” AI platform. Well on February 17th, 2025 at about 8:30 PM PST that equation changed.

Not only did Grok 3 meet up to the hype generated by Elon Musk and others (including me), it surpassed it in many ways. This all came about through an impossible accelaraton that only few companies could ever think to achieve. Let’s look at the timeline:

• Grok-1: 3 November 2023
• Grok on X for Premium+ users: 7 December 2023
• Grok-1 open-source release: 17 March 2024
• Grok-1.5: 15 May 2024
• Grok-2: 13 August 2024
• Aurora : 4 November – 2024
• Grok-3 : 17th February 2025

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Grok Growth

All of this growth came about because X.AI is by amassing one of the largest collection of GPUs in the world called Colossus, a supercomputer built by xAI, plays a pivotal role in the development of Grok 3. Here are the overview:

Computational Power for Training

Colossus provides the immense computational resources required to train Grok 3. It was initially equipped with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs and now doubling to over 200,000 H100 equivalents moving to over 1 million by years’s end, offering the processing power necessary to handle the complex algorithms and massive datasets involved in developing advanced AI models. This scale of infrastructure is critical for Grok 3, enabling it to process and learn from vast amounts of data efficiently.

Rapid Development and Scalability

The construction of Colossus was remarkably fast, reportedly taking just a few months. This rapid deployment allowed xAI to accelerate the training process for Grok 3, speeding up development compared to traditional timelines for such large-scale systems. Moreover, Colossus is designed to be scalable. This scalability ensures that as Grok evolves and demands more computational power, Colossus can grow to meet those needs.

Advanced Networking and Data Management

Beyond raw compute, Colossus incorporates cutting-edge networking technologies, such as Nvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, to manage data transfers efficiently across its vast cluster. This minimizes latency and supports the high-bandwidth requirements of training large models like Grok 3. Additionally, while specific details are not public, Colossus likely features enormous storage capacity to handle the extensive training data and model parameters essential for Grok’s development.

Grok 3 is still in training and my bet is it will constantly be in training until the newer versions are being released. This means you will access a “new” Grok 3 just about every day. But there is more to this. Grok 3 is far more than an AI platform competing with ChatGPT, it is an entirely new way to understand and access the Internet. Some companies will fade into the long goodbye mode.

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