xAI founder Elon Musk took to X to boast about the chatbot’s perfect prediction of the 97th Academy Awards held on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Hours before the Academy Awards took place on late Sunday, entertainment news account PopX asked Grok to predict who would win several categories at the event, including Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Cast, Best Director, and Best Picture.
Grok successfully predicted all Oscar winners!
Download the @Grok app and try voice mode! https://t.co/Dq0OLtMHrO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2025
Grok successfully predicted Adrien Brody as Best Actor for The Brutalist, Kieran Culkin as Best Supporting Actor for A Real Pain, and Zoe Saldaña as Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez. It also correctly named Sean Baker as Best Director for Anora, which won Best Picture.
Was Grok the only chatbot that made ‘perfect’ predictions?
Tech news platform Cybernews had also asked other AI models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, and Deepseek, to attempt predicting Oscar winners. Like Grok, Perplexity AI got some categories right, such as Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, and Zoe Saldaña, but it incorrectly named Demi Moore for Best Actress instead of Mikey Madison.
ChatGPT favored Anora for Best Picture, Baker for Best Director, and Culkin for Supporting Actor, but wrongly predicted Timothée Chalamet as Best Actor and Demi Moore as Best Actress.
Deepseek’s predictions were completely out of “order” by the other chatbot’s standards, as it gave very generalized assumptions about who would win, like “Leonardo DiCaprio (if he delivers a strong performance in a high-profile 2024 film),” instead of straight answers.
Musk’s Grok still finding its feet in the AI competition
In his Monday X post, Elon Musk took Grok’s Oscar success as its potential to lead AI models in the industry, urging his followers to “download the app and try out its voice mode.”
xAI recently unveiled Grok 3, promoting it as the most advanced AI system available. The company integrated the new chatbot’s voice mode into social platform X as part of its premium subscription tiers.
The billionaire has repeatedly positioned xAI as a direct competitor to OpenAI, the company he co-founded but later distanced himself from. Musk has had several confrontations with OpenAI’s head Sam Altman, with the latter calling the Tesla CEO an “insecure and unhappy man” after he proposed a $97 billion takeover bid of his company.
“Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy,” Altman added.
Musk stepped down from OpenAI’s board in early 2018 after the company did not grant him control. The following year, Sam Altman took over as CEO, a role Musk had reportedly sought for himself, and an occurrence that has put the two into a longstanding battle till this very day.
Grok 3 developers claim it has ten times the computational power of its predecessor, Grok 2, and is powered by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer, trained using over 100,000 Nvidia GPU hours. Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Musk acknowledged that he sometimes thinks “Grok 3 is scary smart.”
An AI benchmarking report released yesterday by LMArena ranked OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 as the top-performing model across various categories, including coding, math, creative writing, and following instructions. GPT-4.5 amassed over 3,000 votes and secured the number-one ranking in style control and multi-turn conversations.
Reacting to this report, Musk responded: “Not for long,” suggesting that Grok’s capabilities could soon go beyond OpenAI’s models.
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