The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis Just How Good is Grok-3?
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Feb 18, 2025 XAI’s Grok-3 has hit the scene, with claims of competing against GPT-4 and others. Features like Big Brain Mode and Deep Search are generating buzz. But is it truly groundbreaking or just an upgrade? Meanwhile, OpenAI rejected Musk’s staggering acquisition offer. The landscape of AI funding is also evolving, as XAI seeks to raise $10 billion amidst recent delays in AI technology and competitive stakes heating up with Meta's robotics investments.
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Democratizing Deep Research
- Perplexity AI launched a Deep Research tool similar to OpenAI's, but with a much more accessible price point.
- This suggests a growing trend of AI tools becoming more affordable and widely available.
Grok-3 Performance Insights
- Grok-3's performance benchmarks suggest pre-training scaling laws still hold, showing linear improvements with increased compute.
- However, more substantial gains may require significantly larger clusters.
Karpathy's Grok-3 Review
- Andrej Karpathy's early review positions Grok-3's capabilities close to OpenAI's strongest model.
- He highlights XAI's rapid progress, achieving state-of-the-art performance in a short time.