Grok 3 crushes benchmarks––but can it handle the real world?

The race for AGI (artificial general intelligence) just hit another milestone. xAI's Grok 3 has shattered the 1400 ELOELO is a score that tells you how well a model does when pitted against others, and LMSYS is the neutral judge who runs these contests. barrier in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, a competitive platform where AI chatbots go head-to-head in reasoning and conversation skills.

Grok 3 is now the highest-ranked model yet—even surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4o (1412 vs. 1385 ELO).

For developers, this could be more than a leaderboard shuffle—Grok 3 has the potential to change how we build AI applications, especially chatbots.

If you’re integrating advanced language models into your projects or building systems that depend on deep reasoning, Grok 3’s performance could open up new opportunities for efficiency and innovation.

But the real question is: Does Grok 3's dominance in benchmarks translate to real-world advantages?

In this newsletter, we'll cover:

• What makes Grok 3 such a leap from Grok 2

• New features in Grok 3: DeepSearch, Think Mode, and Big Brain Mode (and how they could be game-changers for developers)

• How Grok 3 compares to GPT-4o, Gemini 2, and DeepSeek

• The kinds of AI applications that could benefit most from Grok 3

Let’s dive in and see if Grok 3 is truly a leap forward—or just another model flexing on benchmarks.