Tue. 02/18 – Grok-3

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

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xAI and Elon Musk have launched Grok-3, their cutting-edge AI model. Is it really a step forward? It’s really the cutting-edge? Andrej Karpathy is gonna tell us. The first tri-foldable phone is here. Is there a new huge AI player? And how Apple’s move to manufacture in India is going.

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Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3 (TechCrunch)
Impressions of Grok-3 (@karpathy)
Huawei’s trifold phone launches outside of China (The Verge)
Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO (Tom's Hardware)
OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s Startup Is Fundraising at $30 Billion-Plus Valuation (Bloomberg)
Apple’s quiet pivot to India (FT)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, February 18th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	XAI and Elon Musk have launched GROC 3, their new cutting-edge AI model. Is it really a step forward?
0:15.0	Is it really the cutting edge? Andre Carpathie is going to tell us.
0:18.0	The first tri-fultable phone is here. Is there a huge new AI player?
0:22.2	And how Apple's move to manufacture in India is going.
0:25.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:33.0	Last night, Elon and XAI launched GROC 3 Beta and GROC 3 Mini, their latest AI models with
0:39.5	reasoning trained on 200,000 GPUs or 10 times more compute than GROC2, available now for
0:47.2	X Premium Plus users.
0:49.3	Quoting TechCrunch, GROC, XAI's answer to models like OpenAIs, GPT40 and Google's Gemini can analyze images and respond to
0:56.8	questions and powers a number of features on Musk's social network X.
1:01.6	GROC 3, which has been in development for several months, was optimistically slated for release in
1:06.1	2024 but missed that deadline.
1:08.2	Mondays is an ambitious launch.
1:10.1	XAI has been using an enormous data center
1:12.4	in Memphis containing around 200,000 GPUs to train GROC 3. In a post on X, Musk claimed GROC 3 was
1:19.0	developed with 10x or so more computing power than its predecessor GROC 2 using an expanded
1:24.5	training set that includes filings from court cases and more.
1:28.2	Grog 3 is an order of magnitude more capable than GROC 2, Musk said during a live stream
1:32.7	presentation on Monday. It's a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes
1:38.1	at odds with what is politically correct, end quote. Grog 3 is a family of models, to be precise.
1:43.9	A smaller version of GROC 3, GROC3MNI, responds to questions more quickly at the cost of some accuracy.
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