Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks? | TechCrunch

Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view.

This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. One of the co-founders of xAI, Igor Babushkin, insisted that the company was in the right.

The truth lies somewhere in between.

In a post on xAI’s blog, the company published a graph showing Grok 3’s performance on AIME 2025,…