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Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by sroussey »

sergiotapia wrote: post #492
thallavajhula wrote: post #442

Do people really use Grok for anything outside of Twitter memes or understanding tweets? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.

It's my go to for searches, DIY, personal finance, and more general slice of life AI. Once it is as good as Kimi K2.6 for coding, I will probably use Grok exclusively. It really is the best conversational AI I've used. It has helped me fix a broken fridge, and a broken electrical oven. Literally saved me at least $4k this year. Edit: Also saved me $600 because I did my taxes with it. H&R Block is cooked. Edit 2: Oh s…

Did you do legal filings with it after doing your taxes? Oh my.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by Auracle »

jerf wrote: post #330
randallsquared wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father's name was Claude, but, you know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We need to get these companies to predeclare what names they're going to use for the next 50 or 60 years so we can avoid them. Pouring one out for all the "Alexa"s in the world.

It is weird to me that Amazon chose a fairly common name. There are plenty of short, more unique names out there.

I have ours set to “Computer” anyways, partly due to Star Trek and partly because it annoys my wife when we use the term in conversation and it picks it up. It has the side effect of being harder to pronounce for our kids, which was probably a good thing.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by Auracle »

ezoe wrote: post #206

While the tread is swapping between "OMG Claude good. OpenAI was done for" and "OMG Codex good. Anthropic was done for". I've never heard about Gemini and Grok. It works mostly similar performance, but people don't mention that much. Still, my impression is, Gemini hallucinate too much while Grok is always less capable than competitors so it's not worth using it.

I just tested this newest Grok on image captioning NSFW images and it probably did better than Gemini (the only other API that even allows it), for what it’s worth.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by vrganj »

9879875665876 wrote: post #508
timmytokyo wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me guess. You also believe grok's recent episode, where it started inserting "white genocide" into the responses of totally unrelated queries, was caused by a rogue employee totally not doing it at Elon's behest. Despite the fact that Elon is always going on about "white genocide". At this point you'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind to deny he's manipulating the LLM's output for propagandistic purposes.

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Everyone is. An LLM is fundamentally a propaganda technology.

No need for whataboutism though.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by jpadkins »

senordevnyc wrote: post #502
jpadkins wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why?

You’ve either been under a rock for the last few years, or this is a really poor attempt at the Socratic method.

guess I've been under a rock. I avoid a lot of corp media. I know about the DOGE thing, but that seems like a pretty weird reason to hate the guy.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by nomel »

gertlabs wrote: post #529

Grok 4.3 is a unique model in our tests. It's one of the fastest models, and its responses are far smaller/token dense than other models with comparable performance. However, its overall coding reasoning ability is not competitive with the big April releases, and neither Grok 4.20 nor Grok 4.3 have been able to significantly push the intelligence frontier since Grok 4. Grok 4.3 is better in agentic workloads, and a f…

Any possibility that there could be a compromise in making it work seemingly well (benchmarks around this?) with post-knowledge-cutoff information, which appears to be their primary use case for it?

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

kardianos wrote: post #265
Barbing wrote: post #175

Grok 4.3 was completed ahead of its CEO’s lesson on this common safety resource: Asked if he knew anything about OpenAI's "safety card," Musk smiled and replied: "Safety card? Why would it be a card?" https://www.axios.com/2026/04/30/musk-openai-safety-grok Low relevancy in spite of cluster size and musical chair gas generators for time being: Later in his testimony, Musk was asked about a claim he made last summer t…

Elon has publicly stated that he cares a great deal about safety. He has stated that the only safe models are those which align greatest with truth, that which is in reality. In this, xAI has lived up, as it has proved to hallucinate least (or close to least) in benchmarks. If you read that, quote again, he is saying "how can you quantify safety in a card?"

> Elon has publicly stated that he cares a great deal about safety

He doesn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/09/grok-u...

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