Andrej Karpathy's initial impressions of Grok 3. Andrej has the most detailed analysis I've seen so far of xAI's Grok 3 release from last night. He runs through a bunch of interesting test prompts, and concludes:
As far as a quick vibe check over ~2 hours this morning, Grok 3 + Thinking feels somewhere around the state of the art territory of OpenAI's strongest models (o1-pro, $200/month), and slightly better than DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Which is quite incredible considering that the team started from scratch ~1 year ago, this timescale to state of the art territory is unprecedented.
I was delighted to see him include my Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle benchmark in his tests:
Grok 3 is currently sat at the top of the LLM Chatbot Arena (across all of their categories) so it's doing very well based on vibes for the voters there.
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