xAI has released Grok 3 which is the first model to break a 1400 LLM Arena score. This makes Grok 3 the top AI model.
Grok 3 is still undergoing reinforcement learning to make it even smarter. This will help Grok 3 to surpass OpenAI O3.
The data center that xAI has built has been expanded to 250 megawatts and 200,000 GPUs.
xAI is already expanding to 1.2 gigawatts of power and 1 million GPUs. Those will be Nvidia B200 chips and Dojo 2 chips of similar compute power. A million more powerful GPUs will have 40 times the training power.
The big economic impact for Tesla will having a great conversational AI voice system out in a week. They will stick it into Tesla cars in 1-2 months. The voice system will also be in Teslabots.
Talking to xAI grok 3+ in Tesla cars will be a huge convenience and will be very useful for drivers.
It will also get deeply integrated with X and X payments
Agent grok will come out in a few months to perform very useful tasks and work based upon voice commands.
AI expert, Andrej Karpathy Summary of Grok 3 . As far as a quick vibe check over ~2 hours this morning, Grok 3 + Thinking feels somewhere around the state of the art territory of OpenAI’s strongest models (o1-pro, $200/month), and slightly better than DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Which is quite incredible considering that the team started from scratch ~1 year ago, this timescale to state of the art territory is unprecedented. Do also keep in mind the caveats – the models are stochastic and may give slightly different answers each time, and it is very early, so we’ll have to wait for a lot more evaluations over a period of the next few days/weeks. The early LM arena results look quite encouraging indeed. For now, big congrats to the xAI team, they clearly have huge velocity and momentum and I am excited to add Grok 3 to my “LLM council” and hear what it thinks going forward.
BREAKING: @xAI early version of Grok-3 (codename "chocolate") is now #1 in Arena! 🏆
Grok-3 is:
– First-ever model to break 1400 score!
– #1 across all categories, a milestone that keeps getting harder to achieveHuge congratulations to @xAI on this milestone! View thread 🧵… https://t.co/p8z8lccNd5 pic.twitter.com/hShGy8ZN1o
— lmarena.ai (formerly lmsys.org) (@lmarena_ai) February 18, 2025
I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check.
Thinking
✅ First, Grok 3 clearly has an around state of the art thinking model ("Think" button) and did great out of the box on my Settler's of Catan… pic.twitter.com/qIrUAN1IfD— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 18, 2025
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Brian, from where do you get that there will be a grok 3 in Teslas within weeks? Is hw4 even suitable for running LLMs?