[AINews] Grok 3 & 3-mini now API Available

<p><strong>X is all you need?</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>AI News for 4/17/2025-4/18/2025. We checked 9 subreddits, <a href="https://twitter.com/i/lists/1585430245762441216" target="_blank"><strong>449</strong> Twitters</a> and <strong>29</strong> Discords (<strong>211</strong> channels, and <strong>8290</strong> messages) for you. Estimated reading time saved (at 200wpm): <strong>650 minutes</strong>. You can now tag <a href="https://x.com/smol_ai" target="_blank">@smol_ai</a> for AINews discussions!</p> </blockquote> <p>Grok 3 (<a href="https://buttondown.com/ainews/archive/ainews-xai-grok-3-and-mira-muratis-thinking/" target="_blank">our coverage here</a>) has been out for a couple of months, but wasn't API available. Now it is, with a bonus baby brother!</p> <p><img alt="image.png" class="newsletter-image" src="https://assets.buttondown.email/images/4cd9fef6-82d9-47b6-b551-ca8f5ca4d15a.png?w=960&amp;fit=max" /></p> <p>At 50 cents per output mtok, Grok 3 mini claims to be competitive with much larger frontier models, while displaying full reasoning traces:</p> <p><img alt="image.png" class="newsletter-image" src="https://assets.buttondown.email/images/c4689428-9550-4417-b9a6-eea53be4514f.png?w=960&amp;fit=max" /></p> <p>You can get started here: https://docs.x.ai/docs/overview</p> <hr /> <p></p> <p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <div class="toc"> <ul> <li><a href="https://buttondown.com/ainews/rss#ai-twitter-recap">AI Twitter Recap</a></li> <li><a href="https://buttondown.com/ainews/rss#ai-reddit-recap">AI Reddit Recap</a><ul> <li><a href="https://buttondown.com/ainews/rss#rlocalllama-recap">/r/LocalLlama Recap</a></li> <li><a href="https://buttondown.com/ainews/rss#1-google-gemma-3-qat-quantization-and-ecosystem-launches">1. Google Gemma 3 QAT Quantization and Ecosystem Launches</a></li> <li><a href="https://buttondown.com/ainews/rss#2-novel-llm-benchmarks-videogamebench-real-time-csm-1b">2. Novel LLM Benchmarks: VideoGameBench &amp; Real-time CSM 1B</a