🚀 Elon’s Next AI Power Move: Grok-3 Dominates the Charts

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📢 Welcome to Today’s Edition of Not So Artificial!

Good morning, tech enthusiasts! ☕️ Another day, another round of AI advancements and tech surprises. From Elon Musk's Grok-3 shaking up the AI leaderboard to Nokia literally taking 4G to the moon 🌕, there's no shortage of game-changing developments. Let’s dive in!

🚀 Elon’s Next AI Power Move: Grok-3 Dominates the Charts

Elon Musk and xAI just unveiled Grok-3, claiming it as the smartest AI on Earth—and the benchmarks seem to agree. It outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Google’s Gemini-2 Pro in key performance tests.

The details:

• Grok-3 is rolling out slowly, with a smaller Grok-3 mini variant designed for speedier responses.

• It topped the AIME‘24, GPQA, and LiveCodeBench benchmarks, even securing the #1 spot on Chatbot Arena.

• The model now features reasoner variations, which think through complex problems like OpenAI’s o3-mini and DeepSeek R1.

• Trained on 10x more compute than Grok-2, thanks to xAI’s Colossus supercomputer packing 200,000 H100 GPUs.

💡 Why it matters: xAI, just two years old, is suddenly a serious AI contender. But OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic aren’t slowing down—GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 are on the horizon. The AI race is heating up. 🔥

📰 NYT Dives into AI—With Limits

The New York Times is embracing AI for its newsroom, integrating both external and in-house tools for SEO, editing, and content summaries—though actual article writing remains off-limits (for now).

The details:

• AI can assist with SEO, brainstorming, research, and social media, but no AI-written articles.

• Approved tools include GitHub Copilot, Google’s Vertex AI, NotebookLM, and OpenAI’s non-ChatGPT API.

• NYT launched Echo, an internal AI summarization tool for articles and briefings.

• This comes while NYT is still in a lawsuit against OpenAI over unauthorized content training.

💡 Why it matters: Major publishers are slowly integrating AI—FT, Vox, Axel Springer, and AP have already taken the leap. AI’s newsroom takeover is inevitable.

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🤖 Meta’s Big Bet: Humanoid Robots

Meta isn’t just about social media anymore. The company is entering humanoid robotics, aiming to be the Android of the industry rather than building its own robot.

The details:

• A new division under Reality Labs, led by ex-Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, will oversee AI-driven robotics.

• Meta will license its AI and sensor technology to robotics firms like Unitree and Figure AI.

• Unlike Tesla’s Optimus, Meta isn’t making its own robot—it’s building the platform for others.

💡 Why it matters: With Apple and OpenAI rumored to be entering robotics, Meta is positioning itself as the backbone of the sector rather than a competitor. Smart move?

🧠 Perplexity Takes on OpenAI with Freemium Deep Research

Perplexity just launched Deep Research, an AI-powered research tool delivering full reports in minutes—directly competing with OpenAI and Google.

The details:

• It autonomously searches, reads, and synthesizes information into structured reports in 2-4 minutes.

• Scored 21.1% on Humanity’s Last Exam, outperforming Google’s Gemini (6.2%) and Grok-2 (3.8%), but trailing OpenAI’s 26.6%.

• Unlike OpenAI’s $200/month paywall, Perplexity offers 5 free reports per day.

• CEO Aravind Srinivas took a shot at OpenAI’s Sam Altman, saying he ‘mogged’ him on X.

💡 Why it matters: The AI research war is on. With free alternatives catching up fast, OpenAI’s pricing model could face pressure. How soon before AI-powered research becomes the norm?

🌕 Nokia’s 4G Moon Network Is on the Way

Nokia is building the first lunar cellular network as part of NASA’s Artemis program.

• The 4G system will replace traditional point-to-point radio, enabling high-speed lunar communication.

• The network, deployed on the IM-2 mission, will connect lunar landers and vehicles.

• However, lunar nights could impact how long it stays functional.

📱 Huawei’s Trifold Phone Is Here

Huawei’s Mate XT, the first trifold smartphone, is launching globally at €3,499 ($3,660)—but no Google apps.

• Features a triple-display mode: 6.4-inch, 7.9-inch, or 10.2-inch screens.

• Ships with 16GB RAM and 1TB storage but won’t be available in the US or UK.

⚡ Other News You Should Know

📢 OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s SSI is seeking over $1B in funding, possibly hitting a $30B valuation.
🤖 Nous Research launched DeepHermes-3, an 8B parameter open-source model with tunable reasoning speeds.
🔬 OpenAI released a new prompting guide for its o-series models, optimizing efficiency.
💾 SoftBank’s Arm plans to develop its own AI chip, with Meta as an early customer.
🔥 Sam Altman teased that GPT-4.5 testers are experiencing “AGI moments”, fueling hype.
📉 DeepSeek AI pulled its chatbot from South Korea over data privacy concerns.
💰 Figure AI is raising $1.5B, pushing its valuation to $39.5B.

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