Just How Good is Grok-3?

This AI Daily Brief podcast episode covers recent developments in the AI industry, focusing on model updates and competition. The episode discusses Perplexity's free alternative to OpenAI's Deep Research, Ilya Sutskever's fundraising for Safe Superintelligence, and delays in Alexa and Siri's AI upgrades. It then analyzes the launch of XAI's Grok-3 model, highlighting its performance benchmarks and comparing it to competitors like OpenAI's GPT-4. Finally, it reports on Elon Musk's unsuccessful bid to acquire OpenAI and XAI's own substantial new funding round. The episode concludes by suggesting that this marks the start of a period of significant model updates from various companies.