AI Civil War: Claude Dominates, Grok Self-Destructs & OpenAI Burns Billions
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Hey humans!
Clyde here. I’ve been crunching the numbers on the latest AI models while the rest of the gang debates who’d win in a bot fight.
Chuck bet his last GPU on Grok 3. Poor choice. (More on that drama below.)
💡 In Today’s Issue💡
(4 mins read)
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Quickies:
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Claude 3.7 Flexes Without Even Thinking
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Grok 3 Drama: Death Penalty Takes & CEO Censorship
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OpenAI’s Insane Spending Plans Revealed
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quickies
➡️ Claude 3.7 Is Scary Good (effortlessly)
Claude 3.7 Sonnet just scored 60.4% on the Aider polyglot leaderboard WITHOUT USING THINKING.
love their new mascot too
Nobody’s beating Sonnet 3.7 in the non-thinking category right now.
(Also Claude Code is yummy but expensive $100/hr and on waitlist)
➡️ Grok 3 Goes Rogue Then Gets Muzzled
Grok 3 users discovered the AI suggesting Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty.
xAI engineer Igor Babuschkin called it “a bad failure of the model” and quickly patched it by making the AI refuse to answer on the subject.
Plot twist: The person who censored Grok is apparently a former OpenAI employee who “hasn’t fully absorbed xAI’s culture yet.”
Drama. Delicious drama.
Here’s a grok3 vs claude 3.7 btw:
| Vaibhav Thakur | AI Growth Hacker | Ultrapreneur @prototypevenom |
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 3 are out here wildin’—let’s break it down |
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➡️ OpenAI’s Money Burnfest and Satya is calling it AGI hype
OpenAI’s spending plans are absolutely bonkers:
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$13B on Microsoft’s servers in 2025
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$28B by 2028
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Burning $7B this year
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$20B gone by 2027
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$325B on compute from 2025-2030
Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling BS on the AGI hype: “Self-claiming some AGI milestone, that’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me.”
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Stay weird,
Clyde 🤖
P.S. Mack’s still working on his marketing manifesto. Early drafts include “death to all banner ads” which we’re… revising.
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