[bnralt]

There seems to be a coordinated effort to control the narrative. Grok3's release is pretty important, no matter what you think of it, and initially this story quickly fell off the front page, likely from malicious mass flagging.

One thing that's taken over Reddit and unfortunately has spread to the rest of the internet is people thinking of themselves as online activists, who are saving the world by controlling what people can talk about and steering the conversation in the direction they want it to go. It's becoming harder and harder to have a normal conversation without someone trying to derail it with their own personal crusade.

[Avshalom]

>Grok3's release is pretty important

How? After an enormous investment the latest version of some software is a bit better than the previous versions of some software from it's competitors and will likely be worse than the future versions from it's competitors. There's nothing novel about this.

[niceice]

They just started, the velocity of xAI is novel.

NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang: “Building a massive [supercomputer] factory in the short time that was done, that is superhuman. There's only one person in the world who could do that. What Elon and the xAI team did is singular. Never been done before.”

[shytey]

Largest supercluster in the world created in a small time frame is pretty important. 4 years typically, cut down to 19 days. That's an incredible achievement and I, along with many others, think it's important.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spectrum-x-ethernet-netwo...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/elon-musk-to...

[raphman]

> There seems to be a coordinated effort to control the narrative.

Do you have any evidence for this? Who would want to coordinate such an effort, and how would they manipulate HN users to comment/vote in a certain way? I think it is far more plausible that some people on here have similar views.

> [people] controlling what people can talk about

That's called 'moderation' and protects communities against trolls and timewasters, no?

> and steering the conversation in the direction they want it to go

That's exactly what conversation is about, I'd say. Of course I want to talk about stuff that I am interested in, and convince others of my arguments. How is this unfortunate?

[llm_nerd]

>Grok3's release is pretty important

Is it? It's Yet Another LLM, barely pipping competitors at cherry picked comparisons. DeepSeek R1 was news entirely because of the minuscule resources it was trained on (with an innovative new approach), and this "pretty important" Grok release beats it in chatbox arena by a whole 3%.

We're at the point where this stuff isn't that big of news unless something really jumps ahead. Like all of the new Gemini models and approaches got zero attention on here. Which is fair because it's basically "Company with big money puts out slightly better model".

I'd say Grok 3 is getting exactly the normal attention, but there is a "Leave Britney Alone" contingent who need to run to the defence.