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Plus: Hereās a quick comparison of Gemini 3 vs. Grok 4.1 vs. GPTā5.1
Gemini 3 didnāt wait for ThursdAI. Google launched its most powerful model ever. It beat GPTā5 Pro, crushed benchmarks, even Elon Musk & Sam Altman gave it props!
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š§ Ā TuesdAI Dethroned ThursdAI with Gemini 3
You remember when everyone used to drop AI stuff on Thursdays and call it āThursdAIā? Well, forget that, Google just made TuesdAI the new launch day. First things first: Gemini 3 is live. Hereās what itās already doing:
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Scored #1 on LMArena (1501 Elo if you’re keeping score)
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Beat GPT-5 Pro on āHumanityās Last Examā (scored 37.4 vs 31.6)
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Dropped a new āDeepThinkā version that hits 45.1% on ARC-AGI-2 š¤Æ
You can already use it now. You can give Gemini 3 anything (images, pdfs, scribbles, etc) and it will create whatever you like. Thereās also a new Gemini Agent. Instead of just answering your questions, it can:
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Handle multi-step tasks
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Build interactive UIs directly in search (like actual sliders and sims)
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Plan actions, simulate outcomes, and do stuff
Basically: itās like you got upgraded from a chatbot to a teammate. Next up, Gemini 3 DeepThink isnāt out yet, but itās coming soon. Itās made for heavier reasoning like multi-hop logic, long thoughts, more depth.
Itāll be part of Googleās Ultra tier once it clears safety tests. Even Elon Musk & Sam Altman congrats on Gemini 3 launch post!
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
š¤ Before Gemini 3 steals the show, xAI dropped its āvibe-firstā Grok 4.1. Weāll break it down below. Anw, hereās a quick comparison of Gem3 vs. Grok 4.1 vs. GPTā5.1.
ā©ļø Have u ever wonder how some social media accounts reply to 1,000s of comments in seconds, like instantly? We may find the trick using Perplexityās Comet. See it here.
š Not recommended: A DoorDash customer got a refund after claiming their burger was raw, by using AI to fake the photo & it actually worked!? See before & after pic.
š„ OpenAIās VP of research, Jerry Tworek, posted that a stronger version of its 2025 IMOāwinning model is coming. You can read the post & community reaction here.
ā In an exclusive interview, the boss of Google said AI models are “prone to errors.” Don’t blindly trust AI, he also shared some really useful advice in this interview here!
š Microsoft just announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025: Agent 365, 12 new Copilot agents,… Check out the rest of everything they covered on Microsoft Ignite here.
š° AI Daily Fundraising: AI cloud company, Lambda, raised $1.5B+, led by TWG Global with Microsoft participating, to expand its powerful AI infrastructure.
GEMINI 3 IN ACTION, FROM GOOGLE CEO
1/ From an image to a board game, a napkin sketch transformed to a full website, a diagram could to an interactive lesson.
2/ Analyze your long-form videos to give you a performance audit, identifying specific technical issues and providing the exact drills to fix them.
3/ Get dynamic visual layouts with interactive tools and simulations, generated specifically for your question.
4/ Visual layout moves beyond text with an immersive, magazine-style view.
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š§ Ā Grok 4.1 features massive upgrades in emotions, creative writing
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šĀ xAI Grok 4.1ās EQ Tried to Steal Gemini 3ās Muscle
So right before Google could steal the entire spotlight with Gemini 3, Elon Muskās xAI pulled a classic move, dropped Grok 4.1 early and made some noise. You can use:
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Grok 4.1 – snappy, instant replies
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Grok 4.1 Thinking – takes its time, thinks things through
Both are free to use on X, Grok site, and the mobile app. Just pick the vibe you want. In the LMArena Text Arena, Grok 4.1 (Thinking) was #1 on the leaderboard⦠until Gemini 3 showed up hours later and nudged it to #2.
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Expert score: 1510 (Grok 4.1 Thinking)
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Standard Grok 4.1: 1465
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Creative writing: Only GPTā5.1 Polaris Alpha scored higher
They also slashed the hallucination rate down to 4.2% (from 12% š³) and cranked up factual accuracy by 66%.
When we tried using it, the tone is friendlier, more empathetic. Like it actually āgetsā you a bit more, but just a bit! You canāt use Grok 4.1 in your own tools or workflows. Itās strictly on their platforms for now.
Plus, they dropped a whitepaper with actual training and eval info (which, for xAI, is rare and kind of cool).
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