Ethan B. Holland

“A side effect of so much of academia leaving this site is that the interesting RCTs & other studies that used to be the center of so much of the best debate aren’t being posted, made worse by the fact you can’t post links This has had a lot of impact on the quality of discussion” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1893340789666689472

“I now have basically the same number of Subst ack readers as followers on X! I started it right after this platform was bought out, as a backup. One lesson I have learned in recent years is to diversify platforms for your work, they are only stable until they are suddenly not. https://x.com/emollick/status/1892659330517774377

“Same thing with my Substack. Twitter is now less than 1% of my traffic, it used to be far more. Not a big deal to me (my Substack is free, so I don’t expect to convert from social media), but another data point. This platform is being optimized for chitchat, not discussion.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1894414637354959083

“@BorisMPower Completely wrong. We just used the same method you guys used 🤷‍♂️ https://x.com/ibab/status/1892418351084732654

“Fair enough. Here’s my compilation of all results from relevant sources on AIME 2025 performance of Grok and OpenAI models, plus extrapolations of cons@64 for DeepSeek models and o1. I think this is significantly easier to understand than chart crimes of these frontier labs. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1892471638534303946

“Here’s how you know a lab has truly reached frontier level: it starts releasing asinine, deformed charts to claim SoTA https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1892482831680504224

“Grok 3’s voice mode has no censorship. It’s quite surprising. Grok Voice Chat with ChatGPT”
https://x.com/arrakis_ai/status/1892858641234993381

“”What do you think, you mechanical piece of shit?” (bis) (bis) (bis) It’s fun but @xai guys you need to work a little bit more at the “keep conversation going” prompt diversity lol” / X https://x.com/giffmana/status/1894310343658151961

“Grok is launching AI agent soon https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1891715044246692330

“A lot of progress for Grok (and AI in general) in just over a year, going from the mediocre Grok 1 to the current Grok 3 Good illustration: 15 months ago it got these four tests wrong, now it passes 75% (weirdly, I find it struggles with sestinas, where o1 & Claude can do them) https://x.com/emollick/status/1892816564962906326

“it’s surprising how many people were giving me grief over my bullishness on Grok” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1892509598612877503

“xAI unveiled Grok-3, its new AI model with reasoning capabilities, achieving SoTA performance across math, science, and coding On launch, they also revealed that the model scored #1 on Chatbot Arena above all other models Impressive speed https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893708244100530495

“now here’s something I expect Elon to beat Dario on: organic reaction to being called a retard. big Grok W. (also, smart that it has a clue about X’s peculiarities) https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1894049060308336799

xAI’s Grok 3 is available for free to everyone ‘for a short time’ https://www.engadget.com/ai/xais-grok-3-is-available-for-free-to-everyone-for-a-short-time-130031943.html

Grok 3 Beta — The Age of Reasoning Agents https://x.ai/blog/grok-3

“Grok 3 API with 1M context coming thank me later 🫡” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1894733474239582465

“Grok 3 is the first (and only) model to solve this non-riddle. https://x.com/emollick/status/1894526521835946353

“The chain-of-thought in the reasoning model for Grok 3 is very relatable. https://x.com/emollick/status/1892818440731185156

“grok 3 build a endless runner style game where a hugging face collects GPUs https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1893847291221426578

“Another reason I would love a model card for Grok 3 (and it would be helpful for the team to release one)” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1892443277485359546

“Grok 3 is a very good model but it is hard to imagine that it is not eclipsed by coming releases from the other labs. There just isn’t enough of an edge there The question is whether X is aiming for a marathon or a sprint, and if they can keep the speed of improvement as high” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1892732503464579502

“Grok 3 on how to become emperor of Rome (both summary and full version) https://x.com/emollick/status/1892463906016170322

“this is what using grok 3 feels like 😭 https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1892392477987930185

Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/grok-3-appears-to-have-briefly-censored-unflattering-mentions-of-trump-and-musk/

“I will respond to Grok 3 the only way I can imagine, which is to begin a campaign of sabotage against heavy water production in southern Norway.” / X https://x.com/_aidan_clark_/status/1893810160662945918

“Grok 3 Voice Mode, following repeated, interrupting requests to yell louder, lets out an inhuman 30-second scream, insults me, and hangs up https://x.com/goodside/status/1893932239718691167

“Grok 3 voice in Romantic Mode, prompt: “Hi” https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1893818697338290484

“xAI has launched Grok-3, its new flagship model. Grok-3 sets a new record in compute scale: we estimate that it was likely trained using 4e26 to 5e26 floating point operations (FLOP). Significantly, Grok-3 is the first released model known to be trained on over 1e26 FLOP.” / X https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1892671695535677745

“played with grok 3, it’s really good – insanely rapid progress from xai team – super quick models, in particular deep research is like 10x faster than oai (but a bit less thorough) – a bit worse + much slower at coding than o3-mini-high – crashed for my super long query but” / X https://x.com/itsclivetime/status/1892463726810583245

“The human ingenuity behind the Grok logo is something a diffusion model still lags significantly behind, even after grokking trillions of images. Very few curves and parts, but the emotions they evoke are deep and raw. It’s a visual poetry with minimal pixels. 👏” / X https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1892462786426593392

“Question for AI policy folks: Grok 3 is the first model that passes the EU’s 10^25 FLOP limit for systemic risk, and it has few safety guardrails. Looks like it still will be released in Europe, is that because of the delay before full implementation? Or have the rules changed?” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1893408585234747444

“A surprising thing about AI is how similar all the models are in attitudes and overall “feel.” Even Grok with its lower guardrails or the Chinese models are more alike than they are different. Is it the underlying corpus of all human language? Methods? Seems important to know.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1893788317264621642

Elon Musk’s AI Company Tried to Recruit an OpenAI Engineer and His Reply Was Brutal https://futurism.com/openai-engineer-elon-musk-recruiting-rejection

“Grok 3 is impressive. Maybe not the best, but among the best, and for many tasks the best that won’t say no. Grok 3 trusts the prompter like no frontier model I’ve used since OpenAI’s Davinci in 2022, and that alone gets it a place in my toolbox.” / X https://x.com/goodside/status/1893810444189532402

“Grok DeepSearch is pretty good after trying it. It’s just doing a number of query expansions. Has anyone compared it to OpenAI’s DeepResearch?” / X https://x.com/casper_hansen_/status/1892531542548684820

“Gotta say Grok feels like what oai could be if they actually wanted to provide maximum value rather than maximum platitudes to be like apple” / X https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1893823424587268352

“grok 3 build a 3d game where a hugging face collects GPUs https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1893799248811962542

“Once Grok NSFW mode is embodied as a virtual avatar and is capable of video calls — it’s all over. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1894477198737707210

“Disappointing to see the incentives for the grok team to cheat and deceive in evals. Tl;dr o3-mini is better in every eval compared to grok 3. Grok 3 is genuinely a decent model, but no need to over sell.” / X https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/1892407015038996740