It’s not the cheapest model on the market. Grok 3 is on par with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but pricier than Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro. And benchmark results? Let’s just say xAI’s reporting has raised a few eyebrows.
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xAI launches Grok 3 API: fast, expensive, real-world ready
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BREAKING: Elon Musk’s xAI just launched the API for Grok 3. It’s fast, expensive, and ready for real-world use. Here’s everything you need to know
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Digital Identity Wallets Replace Traditional Wallets Technology
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This Technology Will Replace Your Wallet Digital identity wallets: Store everything from ID to credentials in one secure place. Major tech companies and governments leading the change. Get ready for the digital identity revolution. #DigitalWallet #DigitalIdentity
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Huawei Pangu Ultra 135B Matches DeepSeek-R1 Performance
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Huawei is gearing up to release Pangu Ultra—a 135B dense Transformer trained on 13.2T tokens with 8,192 Ascend NPUs. Despite fewer parameters, it matches DeepSeek-R1 in performance.
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Indian AI Market Opportunities Emerge Amid Economic Turmoil
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Indian opportunity is really opening up amid turmoil
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GPT 4.5 Podcast Watch Party with Sam Altman
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ok apparently there is TOO MUCH ALPHA in @sama
's GPT 4.5 podcast today https://
discord.gg/kTARCma3?event
=1360137758089281567
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Concerns About Grok Accessing Direct Message Information
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Scared when grok can reference everything it knows about your dms
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Gemini Colleagues Showcase at Google Cloud NEXT Conference
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Come check out some great talks at #GoogleCloudNEXT by my Gemini colleagues!
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SCE Edison Launches AI-Driven Network Management with NVIDIA
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Southern California Edison (
@SCE
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NVIDIA Hardware Verification Engineer Enables Supercomputer Innovation
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Irina Zernova’s work as a hardware verification engineer at NVIDIA helps enable the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Read more about her journey on our blog. #NVIDIAlife