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Feb 2025
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AI ROLLUP #12: Kaito's Secret Token Util...

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Ejaaz and David are back this week with a new frontier model to dissect. With the release of Grok 3, xAI is now a real competitor to companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Joining this news cycle is Kaito, set to launch it's airdrop and it turns out Ejaaz is... a top yapper?  Meanwhile, David tried to get a date with an AI agent and a Kardashian is quote tweeting Virtuals, it's been a weird week. 

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------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

00:00 Intro & Temp Check

04:10 Grok 3 Release https://x.ai/blog/grok-3 

12:25 Nous Research https://x.com/NousResearch/status/1890148000204485088 

20:17 Date Abby http://dateabby.com 

23:22 Replit and Agent On Agent Coding

27:59 Kaito Explained https://x.com/0x_ultra/status/1891353010934358456?s=46 

36:47 Kaito Airdrop 

41:18 Tracy And Sports Betting AI https://x.com/HeyTracyAI  https://x.com/khloekardashian/status/1891552900070908130 

45:13 BillyBets https://docs.billybets.ai/  https://x.com/VaderResearch/status/1891699035742011673 

50:48 BIttensor Upgrade https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1890071216645603802 

56:03 AI16Z https://x.com/ai16zdao/status/1890473840314315158 

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