Elon Musk takes some of the wind out of DeepSeek’s sails. From Semper Doctrina at semperdoctrina.substack.com:
Musk’s Grok3 Clears OpenAI and DeepSeek
Last night, on Monday, February 17th, Musk and his xAi team unveiled Grok3.
The new model has leaped over its competitors in math, science, and coding benchmarks.
In the chart you can see Grok3, in blue, compared to the offerings from OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google Gemini.
Given that xAi started from scratch a year ago, the achievement is extraordinary and unprecedented.
XAI MOVES FASTER THAN ITS COMPETITION, A KEY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
“All you need to know to understand which company will win a technology competition is look at the first and second derivatives of the rate of innovation.” – Elon Musk, February 18, 2025
For those of you whose calculus is rusty, let me break down Musk’s comment for you.
He talks about a “rate of innovation”. Here, he is thinking of some measurable progress, milestones, per unit of time. I want to make this super simple, so let’s talk about something we know. When we drive our car, we travel a distance, in miles, over a measure of time – – think about traveling “35 miles per hour”. This is a rate of travel we call “speed”: How we change our position “r” over time. In physics, we say, how does our position (“r”) differ (“d”) as time (“t”) differs (“d”)? So, speed is “dr/dt”, or “difference in position over difference in time”.
When Elon mentions the “first derivative” of the rate of innovation, he wants us to look at how that speed changes OVER time. So first we are going to get back in our car and stomp on the gas pedal, hard. We call this “acceleration”. That is, “dr/dt”, or speed, increases as time clicks by: So, “dr/dt” divided by time is a positive value, greater than zero. If we were to stomp on our brakes, we would “decelerate” and “dr/dt” divided by time goes negative. Got it?
So, first, Elon is saying that the winner in this AI race – – and any tech race – – is the one who NOT ONLY innovates faster, BUT ALSO increases their speed of innovation over time, that is, they ACCELERATE.
ELON MOVES FASTER AND MOVES “BETTER”
But what else is he saying … what is the “second derivative”? [Hint: Remember that Elon owns a rocket company.]
Musk is Trump’s ace up the sleeve?
It makes sense the liquid cooled and may bypass the windmill and solar which won’t work anyway.
Bro needs super machine with video card that is more powerful than the CPU for flight simulator and he uses liquid cooled.
This just in from Sam Hain:
The Hungry End