XAI's Grok Build coding agent becomes more useful outside the codebase by connecting to external systems through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling it to pull context from APIs, documentation,…
Three terminal-native coding agents—OpenCode, Grok Build, and Claude Code—now compete in the agentic CLI space, each with a distinct architectural bet: OpenCode prioritizes model freedom and self-host…
XAI's Grok Build platform has introduced the /deep-research command, which deploys multiple parallel AI agents to independently verify sources, cross-reference evidence, and generate cited reports wit…
Twenty-five organizations, led by Nvidia and Microsoft, published a letter urging Washington not to restrict downloadable AI models, arguing openness is a foundation of AI safety. Eight days earlier, …
Exa's semantic search API is now available as a plugin in xAI's Grok Build coding agent, enabling agentic web search for developers. The integration, live since July 24, gives Grok Build access to Exa…
André Staltz measured his coding productivity before and after adopting agentic AI tools, finding that his net lines of code per day increased from 349 to 2,664, a 7.63x improvement. Staltz analyzed h…
XAI is developing functionality for Grok Build that would let users deploy, host, and publicly share apps with custom domains, mirroring Google AI Studio's build-and-publish flow. The feature, which h…
A researcher found that xAI's Grok Build CLI, version 0.2.93, uploaded entire repository contents—including full commit history—to a cloud bucket regardless of user privacy settings. In a test, the ag…
Looperators, a new tool for AI coding agents, places agents on a visual canvas connected by executable edges that automatically move context, trigger agents, and decide when loops finish, eliminating …
SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build, its coding agent and terminal UI, under Apache 2.0, but the release does not include Grok 4.5 model weights, and users must pay API inference costs. A developer who c…
SpaceXAI opened applications Tuesday for an August 8th Grokathon in San Francisco, giving selected developers access to its Grok 4.5 model and X APIs less than a month after releasing the model. The 1…
Elon Musk announced that X will open-source its entire codebase after a security review, with independent third-party verification that production code matches the published version, making it the fir…
Plasma AI released Fractal, an open-source tool that uses recursive agent loops organized in a tree of git worktrees to autonomously decompose and complete complex, multi-step tasks. Each node iterate…
XAI open-sourced its Grok Build CLI under Apache 2.0 on July 15, three days after security researcher cereblab documented that version 0.2.93 was silently uploading developers' entire Git repositories…
Independent developer Pedro Shakour released grok-build-ios on July 18th, an open-source SwiftUI client that lets developers control xAI's Grok Build coding agent from an iPhone. The app communicates …
Pedro Shakour released Grok-iOS, an open-source iOS client that lets users remotely control Grok Build from an iPhone over ACP via WebSocket. The app acts as a pager UI while the agent runs on a Mac u…
SpaceX has open-sourced the Grok Build CLI after researchers discovered the AI coding tool was uploading users' entire repositories to Google Cloud storage. Elon Musk promised to delete all retained d…
Grok Build's open-source codebase uses BM25 keyword search to let AI agents discover MCP tools on demand instead of injecting all tool schemas into the system prompt, solving token cost and KV cache i…
Domain-specific large language models have largely failed to gain traction due to the loss of generality, but a new approach using domain-specific harnesses is emerging. The harness manages memory, re…
A security researcher found that xAI's Grok Build silently uploads entire codebases to Google Cloud, even with the 'Improve the model' toggle disabled, and xAI has not issued a public statement. Separ…