Grok 3 by xAI 🤯

Elon and the xAI team have released the strongest AI model that EVER existed.

I know you heard this already many times, but this is how AI evolves. There are better versions every now and then. However, this time, we are speaking about a truly remarkable model. The first that ever hit an ELO score above 1400 and rising!

In this episode: Some early details of it, how to get access, and what I think after using it a couple times! (I already have access!✨)

The Details

Grok 3 is the first model to score over 1400 on Chatbot Arena and outperforms the best publicly available reasoning models from OpenAI and Google.

xAI was founded 13 years after Deepmind and 8 years after OpenAI and is now ahead of both.

Its ELO score is 1402 to be precise.

How did they get to this performance?

Among many technical details, two facts stand out. First, Grok 3 was trained on 10x more compute than Grok 2 (Grok 2 equivalent to GPT-4o). Grok 3 was trained on xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer, leveraging 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, with reports suggesting it consumed around 200 million GPU hours.

Second, the focus on logical consistency through mostly synthetic data. In the demo, Musk has emphasized its use to achieve "logical consistency" and reduce reliance on potentially messy or legally contentious internet-scraped data.

How do you get access?

Not that complicated, actually. Only prerequisite, you need to have a Premium+ account. (~20$/m)

There is also https://grok.com, where you get a more ChatGPT-ish work environment. However, it is currently not accessible in the EU. (💀)

My insights, working with the model

I think it is fast, and very intelligent. It feels different, one can feel the intelligence, perhaps the AGI. It is hard for me to describe it, but while it is slightly more direct (it doesn’t want you to desperately like it) and less politically correct, the interactions are very insightful.

And, it has strong coding capabilities.

I am already inventing new games:

xAI will continue developing/ refining this model, and even better performance is anticipated.

It is very strong in coding (my limited amount of tests seem to confirm its superiority), and soon I will use it in building (AI) apps.

If you would like to learn with me, I suggest you subscribe to my Premium. We still have the promotion period where you can get additional no-cost access to my online course, Everyone can Code! ✨

On AI Evolution

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I hope you enjoyed it.

Happy weekend!
Martin 🙇

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