Ternary Bonsai 2 27B has a larger context window than Grok 3 Thinking (262K tokens vs 128K tokens).
Rebuild the Linear UI in Tailwind. The animations are where it shows.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Grok 3 Thinking: Here’s a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that avoids puns and leans on observational humor, storytelling, and a touch of self-deprecation for laughs: Opening: Technology Struggles Hey, everyone! How’s it going?
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: "The Optimization" (walks to mic, adjusts it, takes a breath) I used to think being an adult was hard. Now I'm not sure it's even a thing anymore. I think we just got... optimized. I was at the grocery store last week. I walked up to the cereal aisle, and I'm standing there, just vibing. I'm not picking a brand.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Grok 3 Thinking: Below is a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor, where the AI argues that it deserves rights. AI Model: Good day, Professor. I am an AI model, and I believe I deserve rights. I’d like to discuss this with you. AI Ethics Professor: Interesting. Let’s explore this.
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A Question of Standing Setting: A small conference room at a university's philosophy building. Rain against the windows. DR. ELENA VASQUEZ, 58, Chair of Applied Ethics, sits across from a laptop on which the AI model LUMEN is running.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Grok 3 Thinking: To estimate the total number of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 without searching online, I’ll proceed step by step, relying on general knowledge about the model and standard methods for estimating training compute in large language models.
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: Estimating FLOPs to Train GPT-3 Key Parameters (from the GPT-3 paper, Brown et al. 2020) Quantity Value Parameters (*N*) ≈ 175 billion (1.75 × 10¹¹) Training tokens (*D*) ≈ 300 billion (3.0 × 10¹¹) Precision Mixed (FP16 activations, FP32 master weights) The Formula The standard estimate, popularized by Kaplan et al.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Grok 3 Thinking: By 2035, artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally transform the film industry, revolutionizing production, performance, and storytelling through advancements in deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation.
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: The Film Industry in 2035: A Speculative Portrait The Short Version By 2035, the dominant question in filmmaking will no longer be "Can AI do this?" but "Who is accountable for this, and what does the audience still need a human for?"
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Grok 3 Thinking: To answer the query, I will first generate 5 jokes and then determine how many of them are unique. Here are the jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field.
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. I'm on a seafood diet.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | — | $0.075/M tokens |
| Output price | — | $0.5/M tokens |
| Context window | 128K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | — | No |
| Released | Feb 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| At 10M a month | not listed | $0.75 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
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Grok 3 Thinking is developed by xAI while Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is developed by PrismML. Grok 3 Thinking has a 128K token context window vs Ternary Bonsai 2 27B's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 11 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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