We collect all the most important AI updates from February.
xAI launched Grok3 this week, it is an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2, with 10x more computing power thanks to xAI's Colossus 100k H100s.
Grok 3 excels in math, science, coding, and general knowledge, with notable performance in image understanding tasks, achieving a 73.2% score on the MMMU benchmark (xAI Blog).
It's seems to be o1 level but it also introduced DeepResearch (they called it DeepSearch) and Search capabilities. The subscription costs $22/month. The most interesting feature of Grok is still the direct access to the twitter feed.
So while G3 is not full o3 level, which didn't launch yet, it signal xAI entering the arena in a competitive way.
https://x.com/adonis_singh/status/1892109817830851060
https://x.com/MSFTQuantum/status/1892252249797124598
Microsoft’s Majorana 1, unveiled today, is the world’s first quantum processor using topological qubits. Here are three key insights:
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1889784565935317169
The hardware AI landscape is accelerating at a breathtaking pace. Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon spending $528 billion on AI infrastructure in 2024 to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI). Leaders like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman predict AGI could arrive within 1-2 years, promising breakthroughs in health and energy but also warning of job losses, inequality, and societal risks. Despite challenges like electricity and chip shortages, the post calls for urgent global discussions to ensure equitable outcomes as humanity approaches this transformative era.
https://x.com/MatthewBerman/status/1890081482104008920
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OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back under strict safety rubrics, OpenAI’s launched GPT-5.6, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 model and Meta Compute.
The second half of June was about AI climbing out of the chat box and into the physical world: Midjourney started scanning bodies, Snap shipped a face computer, SpaceX bought Cursor, and Sakana built a model to command other models. Underneath it all, Dwarkesh Patel named the real bottleneck — the world refuses to be grindable.
