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Grok 4.1 tops benchmarks with emotional intelligence
Plus: Gmail's smart scheduling,
Amandeep Singh
November 19, 2025
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👑 Grok 4.1 tops benchmarks with emotional intelligence focus.
🧠 SOTA model dominates leaderboards with Antigravity platform.
🧠 Jeff co-leads Project Prometheus for aerospace, autos, computing.
📅 Gemini schedules meetings and plans trips in Gmail.
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🚀 Grok 4.1 Levels Up With a Personality Upgrade
Elon Musk’s xAI just dropped Grok 4.1, and it’s not just smarter — it’s more human.
The update claims the top spot across multiple benchmarks, pushing creativity and emotional intelligence to the forefront rather than just raw reasoning power.
Image source: xAI
🔍 What’s New in Grok 4.1
💖 Highest emotional intelligence score among tested AI systems — tuned for empathy & natural conversational flow
🥇 Rolled out quietly under the codename “quasarflux” in LM Arena — ranked #1 in user preference
🎯 Hallucinations down from 12% → 4% and factual errors cut by 66%
✍️ Big leap in creative writing, placing right behind GPT-5.1 on the Creative Writing v3 benchmark
🎉 Why This Matters
Everyone’s watching Google’s upcoming AI fireworks…
but xAI just stole some spotlight, focusing on what most real users feel first:
✨ vibes, personality, creativity, and emotional depth — not just code execution or pure IQ.
For everyday interaction, that might be the upgrade people actually feel.
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🏆 Google’s Gemini 3 Just Took the Top Spot 🚀
Google is officially back in the ring.
The company just dropped Gemini 3, its newest state-of-the-art model, and it’s climbing global AI leaderboards — dethroning OpenAI for the first time in a long while.
It arrives alongside Antigravity, Google’s new agent-first development platform designed to build powerful autonomous AI systems.
Image Source: Google
📊 The Results Are Wild
🧠 New highs on reasoning tests like Humanity’s Last Exam and ARC-AGI-2 — beating GPT-5’s previous records
🔬 #1 in scientific knowledge, math, multimodal reasoning, and tool use
💻 Slightly trails Claude Sonnet 4.5 in coding performance
🎨 Creates generative UI & visual layouts live — already showcased inside AI Mode in Search
🧰 Meet Antigravity
Google also launched Antigravity, a free agentic coding platform featuring:
🌐 Browser-level control
🔄 Asynchronous workflows
🤖 Multi-agent orchestration
A playground for developers building the next generation of AI agents.
🌍 Why It Matters
Gemini 3 marks Google’s strongest comeback yet, pushing OpenAI off the leaderboard for the first time in years.
With massive infrastructure, Search integration, and full-ecosystem reach, Google is signaling that the frontier-model race is entering a new era.
Your move, Sam Altman. 👀
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Microsoft Ignite kicked off yesterday, unveiling Agent 365, a platform for organizations to responsibly govern agents, along with new agents for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and even the Windows 11 taskbar. These features are available through Frontier, Microsoft's early-access program for AI capabilities.
Jeff Bezos is stepping back into an operational role to co-lead Project Prometheus, a $6.2 billion A.I. start-up that aims to use advanced A.I. to transform engineering and manufacturing for industries like aerospace, autos, and computing.
Gmail’s new Gemini-powered Help Me Schedule feature automatically pulls your available time slots from Google Calendar directly into email threads, making it much easier to coordinate meetings. Google also launched AI-powered Search features that help you plan travel itineraries and find cheap flights.
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