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I liked Grok 3 fiction writing style; catches lots of physics of mundane situations such as ringing echo in a closed bathroom we all know well; the prose feels very lively as the result. Kinda like R1 makes situations sharp with details, Grok 3 makes the other way around - rounded by using details.

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I don't understand how and why Grok would be related to "understanding the nature of the universe", as Musk puts it. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they basically just burned more cash than any human should have to buy Nvidia GPUs and make them predict natural language, right? So, they are somewhat on-par with all the other companies that did the same. This is not innovation, this is baseless hype over a mediocr…

You don’t understand the Musk business model. It has been the same for years. His wealth doesn’t come from his products, but from his fanbase buying his stock. The purpose of everything he does is to influence the public opinion to make him the tech genius of today in the collective psyche. Of course, he needs to do impressive things, stuff that a normal person wouldn’t have the resources to achieve. It’s similar to…

this is 100% false..

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I don't understand how and why Grok would be related to "understanding the nature of the universe", as Musk puts it. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they basically just burned more cash than any human should have to buy Nvidia GPUs and make them predict natural language, right? So, they are somewhat on-par with all the other companies that did the same. This is not innovation, this is baseless hype over a mediocr…

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you sound a little hurt. Why the hate?

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What are your first impressions using it? (Not available in Europe currently). Is it a game-changer?

>Not available in Europe currently I hate how its the same story for every new AI technology. If someone can tell me who to vote for or where to protest to change this awful EU law, that would be great.

totally agree. And this is one of the reasons the EU is falling more and more behind, all the silly regulations.

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Companies have hijacked the open source concept to mean downloadable blob and we follow them as I see in the comments. It’s a real shame.

While I do agree with your point - I wonder what information companies could release that'd be immediately useful to you.

It's not like they understand what the weights mean either and if they released the code and dataset used to create it, you probably couldn't recreate it, owning the fact that you don't own tens of thousands of GPUs.

If a software's source is released without all the documentation, commit history, bug tracker data etc., it's still considered open source, yet you couldn't recreate it without that information.

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What are your first impressions using it? (Not available in Europe currently). Is it a game-changer?

>Not available in Europe currently I hate how its the same story for every new AI technology. If someone can tell me who to vote for or where to protest to change this awful EU law, that would be great.

> for every new AI technology.

Well no. Mistral.ai

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https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks-terrifying-visi... I'm not sure if this was a very bad joke by Elon, or if Grok 3 is really biased like that.

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A "hit piece" is not just a negative article, it typically refers to the use of false information or rumors to support something. Did you want to say that it's "an obvious anti-Musk piece"?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because running a company is different to running a state and we doubt his intentions, not his skills. Someone that is not elected gets 8mill/day from the government now overseas the government with some 20-year old fanatics that can’t even put up a secure website for DOGE?

Yeah, most of the government isn't elected, that's how it works. You only vote for 3 roles in the Federal government (I guess 4 if you count the veep). The rest of them are hired. For those downvoting, the roles are President, Vice President, Senator, and Representative. Outside of that, everyone is hired / appointed.

Yes but in most modern societies we have laws against conflict of interest…

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks-terrifying-visi... I'm not sure if this was a very bad joke by Elon, or if Grok 3 is really biased like that.

> Everyone—and not just The Information—should be genuinely terrified that the richest man in the world has built a Large Language Model that spouts propaganda in his image. If we survived Gemini refusing to draw white vikings we will survive that too.

A bit apples to oranges on that comparison there.
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