AI Model Showdown: Grok 4.1 vs. Gemini 3 | E2211

I heard Gemini 3 is out. I heard Grok 4.1 is out. Everything is happening so quickly in our industry. Look at what XAI did. Grok 4.1 is really good across a number of metrics.

Compared to Grok 4 fast, it's a dramatic improvement. When 4.1 was released onto the charts, it went straight to the top. And I think it just shows that there's several different AI labs here in the US that are able to successively create state-of-the-art models. And I think it also pushes back, Jason, against some of the doomerism that's been kind of building in the last three months.

One of the great things is I guess that now that we have these leaderboards, it's motivated all these companies and gotten these teams super excited about claiming the top spot. That's where I'm just getting a little concerned of, you know, like are we actually making progress at solving the real world problems people have? Or are we getting good at acing the SATs? And that is a question for me. This week in Startups is brought to you by Zeit.

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