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Today’s Menu

• Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-3—Is It Really the Smartest AI?

• Solana Slides 9% as Memecoin Drama Hits Market

Markets

TODAY IN AI

Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-3—Is It Really the Smartest AI?

Elon Musk’s xAI just launched Grok-3, calling it “the smartest AI on Earth” after topping benchmarks in math, science, and coding—outperforming Gemini-2 Pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GPT-4o.

The main Grok-3 model is rolling out slowly via the Grok app, while a Grok-3 Mini version promises faster responses. Both models ranked #1 on Chatbot Arena and dominated key benchmarks like AIME’24, GPQA, and LiveCodeBench. Grok-3 also has reasoner variations, allowing it to think through problems like OpenAI’s o3-mini and DeepSeek R1.

xAI trained Grok-3 using 10x more compute than Grok-2, powered by its Colossus supercomputer with 200,000 H100 GPUs—reinforcing that scaling laws still hold.

Grok-3 puts two-year-old xAI at the forefront of the AI race, but with GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 coming soon, and fierce competition from DeepMind, Anthropic, and DeepSeek, the question is—how long can xAI stay on top?

^{Today In Crypto}

Solana Slides 9% as Memecoin Drama Hits Market

Solana (SOL) has dropped to its lowest price since November, wiping out nearly all of its Trump rally gains as memecoin market turmoil sours investor sentiment. SOL is down 9% in 24 hours, while Raydium (RAY), Jupiter (JUP), and Jito (JTO) plunged up to 12%. The broader CoinDesk 20 Index fell 3%, while BTC remained flat. The LIBRA token scandal, which put Argentina’s President Javier Milei in legal trouble, has further shaken confidence in Solana’s memecoin-heavy ecosystem. Since Trump’s official TRUMP token launched in January, SOL has plummeted 43% from its all-time high, according to Galaxy Digital.

Meanwhile, Ethereum-based ETFs are seeing a surge in inflows, gathering $393M this month—outpacing BTC ETFs, which saw $376M in outflows, per Farside Investors. The shift is partly due to the cash-and-carry trade, where investors profit from spot-futures price differences. Some inflows may also be bullish bets on ETH’s recovery, with analysts pointing to solid foundations for a resurgence.

In the latest crypto-meets-politics move, Trump supporters are receiving TRUMP tokens for purchasing perfumes, sneakers, trading cards, and watches from the former president’s merchandise line. Buyers will receive three TRUMP coins (worth ~$50 total) per email address used in past purchases. TRUMP is down 7% in the past 24 hours, sliding alongside the broader crypto market.

Between memecoin chaos, shifting ETF inflows, and Trump-themed crypto giveaways, the market remains volatile—but opportunities for major shifts are brewing.

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Damon James