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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by Rover222 »

nhod wrote: post #45
Rover222 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, so many people aren't capable of talking about anything Musk-adjacent with clear thoughts. It's insane how quickly xAI went from not existing, to the top of the benchmarks.

I'm not sure what you mean here? Musk has a history of doing both incredibly useful and cool things, and also incredibly dumb, cruel, and for some people even terrible things. That context should be part of any clear thinking around him. He does not get a clean slate in every new discussion of him. There are widespread, legitimate concerns about what kind of person Elon Musk is turning out to be. There is a lot of ch…

We’re trying to talk about the capabilities of Grok and you can only focus on Musk. That’s what I’m talking about.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by htfy96 »

ilaksh wrote: post #19

If what they say is true, then you have to give them credit for catching up incredibly fast. And slightly pulling ahead. Not only with the models, but also products.

I have a close friend working in core research teams there. Based on our chats, the secret seems to be (1) massive compute power (2) ridiculous pay to attract top talents from established teams (3) extremelly hard work without big corp bureaucracy.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by staticman2 »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #37
kristofferR wrote: post #2

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I didn't know about this. But I asked it if Elon Musk and DOGE randomly firing as many government workers as they can from all federal departments might be dangerous to Americans and it was pretty honest that yeah, it could be.

They've been training the model for a while, right? It's unlikely he could have known Trump would let him rampage through the federal government when they started training it.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by ddxv »

I think they put the new model behind a $40 paywall so less people use it. The model seems only marginally better than open source models, based on xAI's own internal tests, and they spend $$$ money for it to run. Elon talked in the second half about making one of the largest GPU data centers just to get this running. I guess the next iteration they'll be trying to reduce the costs.

Also, they will be open sourcing Grok 2, which is probably pretty behind at this point, but will still be interesting for people to check out.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by staticman2 »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #41
ein0p wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Why did we start talking about news as "legacy media"? I mean, at least it has journalistic standards and some semblance of fact checking compared to social media which has given us great gaffes such as identifying the wrong Boston Marathon bomber and getting the poor guy to kill himself, wrongly identifying the Hispanic white supremacist shooter, and many many more.

When someone here says they don't like the news I assume it's because the only newsworthy topic in their mind is "Just how COOL is the new Iphone? Very!"

Twitter is well suited to deliver the newest developments on this topic.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by ddxv »

rendang wrote: post #10

Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307 It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space. If it's hard for any one player to get daylight between them & the 2nd best alternative, hopefully that means one monopolistic firm isn't going to be sucking up all the value created by these things

Yep, seeing Grok come out I'm just so glad there are free alternatives that aren't behind paywalls.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by ddxv »

ilaksh wrote: post #19

If what they say is true, then you have to give them credit for catching up incredibly fast. And slightly pulling ahead. Not only with the models, but also products.

To me, it seemed like they spent there money to get there. They talked about the massive datacenter they built, but will it pay off is the question.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by qingcharles »

rendang wrote: post #10

Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307 It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space. If it's hard for any one player to get daylight between them & the 2nd best alternative, hopefully that means one monopolistic firm isn't going to be sucking up all the value created by these things

I've spent the last hour testing it and I'm blown away. And this is coming from a very hardcore user of OpenAI/Claude products on a daily basis.

It passed every goofy test I have for writing articles which involves trying to surface arcane obscure details. (it certainly means however they are scraping the Web they are doing a good job here)

It made the database code I wrote over the last week with o3/o1/GPT4o/Claude3.5 look like a joke.

It fills me with rage over who owns this thing.

Even if people tank Tesla's car business and run Twitter into the ground, I think our new Galactic Edgelord is going to win his first trillion on xAI and Teslabots anyway.

btw: it tried to charge me $40/mo for this thing: https://imgur.com/a/QXslgBo

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by qingcharles »

xqcgrek2 wrote: post #3

Looks impressive. OpenAI and Sam Altman might be cooked if its as capable as advertised.

From what sama says, looks like GPT4.5 dropping imminently. So, might up the game even more.

2025 going to be even more wild than the last two years. Ye gads.

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