I recently worked with NRC dataset, specifically about nuclear reactor events and status reports(example: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/...). Public data that just needed some cleaning. Several time Claude API would refuse to engage. Because of that I can't trust Claude to clean production data sets.

> 1. It seems to be the best at understanding current events. Maybe due to X integration, or some other tool call optimization in the backend? I don't know, but I often ask about things going on, and the other models have outdated info, give unhelpful answers, etc.

That makes sense, but occasionally you ask about an issue where it's clearly received political instruction from the commissar and it acts totally lobotomized. But it's true that Gemini will often blithely state that something could never happen and you'll say "what do you mean, that just happened" and then it comes back apologizing after running a Web search.

Opus 4.8 has made huge jumps in being less sycophantic. I see it pushing back on ideas a lot, and that's very helpful when you're evaluating options.

All 4 of these still regularly insist that I am a genius and everything I say is brilliant. Grok definitely pushes back more than the others, but I don't like how sycophantic they all still are.

What are you using it for? Im pretty surprised ChatGPT is your top model but maybe you arent using it for code.

Career and personal advice from LLMs, not sure if thats your best bet

But in terms of agentic coding? Dead last.

My favorite was ChatGPT, and I still use it often, but it becomes way too 'hair splitting' argumentative too often over very minor non controversial topics. Like it's always going out of its way to "well actually..."

Grok used to be really really bad ~8 months ago or so, but it's gotten better.

ChatGPT team needs to turn down the 'disagree just because' factor by a lot.

My SO works in audit/compliance and business Gemini definitely does not refuse to answer.

1. It seeks to manipulate the information you see and your lens to the world. This is already partially true from independent and major publications.

As soon as we hand over searching out information to social media algorithms and LLM tools, we abandon our ability to see reality outside our direct vision.

Grok's ownership has already demonstrated capacity to influence major world elections and other events. You cannot trust it with this sort of information gathering and reporting.

Grok does seem to have the best searching capabilities, and not just for twitter. I wonder what search engine they’re using on the backend.

I find that too. I use Claude for coding but when I need to dig out something based on limited data I turn to Grok and it delivers.

Isnt that more Perplexitys thing anyways?

Can you give a specific example (that doesn't violate any privacy you want to protect)?

Eh. It was a leading model for a few weeks, it was a real effort, but they never built a real revenue model around it. It wasn't SaaS, it wasn't for governments, it couldn't get B2C payments. Made it hard to justify the training cost to stay at the frontier.

So like the 4D Chess Trump is playing with us?

Come on, the most logical thing is that Musk overestimated the compute he needs and got lucky with the secondary usage of it.

As soon as the IPO is done and if it didn't fail, he will buy curser and try to push again if he hasn't given up on it.

He also needs some compute for the robotics stuff and for Tesla in-car entertainment and for training FSD.

It's a general problem of defining yourself in negative terms. Being "un-{thing I don't like}" doesn't say what you are. It only excludes one possibility while leaving behind an infinitude of mostly crappy alternatives to try to choose from.

Having a positive set of beliefs annoys people and and can make them feel judged, but at least it provides a vector that points somewhere definite in possibility space.