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Top stories today:
- Elon’s xAI unveils Grok 3, slightly ahead of Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek
- Safe Superintelligence said to be raising $1B+ at $30B+ valuation
- OpenAI said to consider special voting rights to block hostile bids
- Elon Musk not DOGE employee, has no decision-making authority: WH
- Delta Bombardier CRJ-900 flips upside down in Toronto landing
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1. Elon’s xAI unveils Grok 3 AI models, slightly ahead of Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek
The standard Grok 3 surpassed its key competitors on crowdsourced AI benchmark LMArena:
Unclear how Grok DeepSearch compares with ChatGPT Deep Research, its most intelligent version.
Memphis data center containing ~200K GPUs has been used to train Grok 3.
“10x” more compute used for training vs. Grok 2.
Shortly: X’s Premium+ tier (now at $40/month or $395/year) will get Grok 3 access.
SuperGrok plan at $30/month or $300/year should also launched with additional features and thinking ability.
Grok 3 surpassed OpenAI’s o3-mini, o1, and DeepSeek R1 on the AIME 2025 math benchmark, according to xAI
xAI has also launched DeepSearch, an AI agent for web-based research, brainstorming, and data analysis
Voice-based chatbot will also be released “as soon as possible.”
xAI’s enterprise API will get Grok 3 with Deep Search in a few weeks.
xAI also plans to open-source Grok 2 in a few months, Elon Musk said.
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3. Safe Superintelligence said to be raising $1B+ at $30B+ valuation
Greenoaks Capital Partners is said to lead the round with a $500M investment.
Sep.: Safe Superintelligence raised $1B at $5B valuation from Sequoia Capital, a16z, and DST Global, among others.
Jun.: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever founded Safe Superintelligence.
Developing safe AI systems is its focus.
