Latent Space AI New AI Player Alert: Grok 3 Makes Its Move
Apr 19, 2025
A new contender in the AI scene, Grok 3, is making waves with its impressive capabilities. Its advanced features put it in direct competition with industry giants like OpenAI. Personal anecdotes reveal its usefulness in identifying automotive parts, despite some hiccups. The podcast delves into Grok 3's superior training methods and real-world applications, including game generation. Exciting news about its expected open-source release hints at a shift towards greater transparency in AI, raising the stakes for all players in the field.
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Real-World Grok 3 Test
- Jaeden Schafer shared his real-world test of Grok 3 with car maintenance questions, revealing mixed accuracy.
- It gave partly correct info on brake light bulbs but wrong wiper blade size, showing uneven reliability.
Grok 3 Helps Shopping Decisions
- Jaeden used Grok 3's image upload feature live in Walmart to compare windshield wipers.
- Grok convincingly explained the benefits of the pricier wiper, influencing his buying decision.
Grok 3's Massive Training Scale
- Grok 3 was trained on 10 times more compute than Grok 2 using a massive, improvised facility with 200,000 GPUs.
- This massive scale likely enables Grok 3's significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and science benchmarks.