Grok3 tops the App Store: Chinese scholars Jimmy Ba and Wu Huaiyu lead AI innovation

Recently, the latest artificial intelligence model Grok3 launched by xAI company has quickly climbed to the top of the list on the US App Store, becoming the focus of hot discussion among users. Behind this achievement, in addition to the powerful functions of Grok3, there are also the outstanding contributions of two Chinese scholars. They are Jimmy Ba, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and Tony Wu, the xAI's joint venture. It is worth noting that Wu Huaiyu is not only the only post-95s in the team, but also his academic background and development experience are even more eye-catching. He has participated in the core development of AlphaGeometry and AlphaStar.

At the just-concluded press conference, Grok3 demonstrated its outstanding abilities in many fields such as reasoning, mathematics, and coding. xAI's official blog calls it "AI entering the age of reasoning agents." This model was trained on xAI's Colossus supercomputing cluster, and its computing power is 10 times that of current top models. Through large-scale reinforcement learning, Grok3 demonstrates amazing reasoning ability when dealing with complex problems, is able to think deeply and correct mistakes.

Grok3 achieved remarkable results in multiple benchmarks. For example, in the 2025 American Mathematics Invitational, its accuracy rate reached 93.3%; in the code generation test, the success rate was also as high as 79.4%. What is even more exciting is that Grok3's reasoning model is not only open to users, but also clearly shows its thinking process. This transparency allows users to understand AI’s reasoning logic while obtaining the final answer.

In practical terms, Grok3 has also been asked to complete several interesting tasks, such as creating a hybrid game with pygame that combines classic game elements, and generating ASCII artworks of Frank Lloyd Wright-style residences. These tasks not only demonstrate Grok3's creative and technical capabilities, but also reflect its outstanding performance in visual effects and code implementation.

In the future, xAI also plans to explore more in-depth inference capabilities and will launch more functions to further promote the development and application of AI technology.