Grok 3 has launched with mixed opinions but strong benchmark performance, notably outperforming models like Gemini 2 Pro and GPT-4o. The Grok-3 mini variant shows competitive and sometimes superior capabilities, especially in reasoning and coding, with reinforcement learning playing a key role.

Mira Murati has publicly shared her post-OpenAI plan, founding the frontier lab Thinking Machines, focusing on collaborative, personalizable AI, multimodality, and empirical safety and alignment research, reminiscent of Anthropic's approach.