xAI is an AI company founded by Elon Musk in 2023 that develops the Grok series of large language models, integrated with the X (formerly Twitter) platform.
A comparison of GitHub Copilot and Cursor, based on five identical tasks run on the same TypeScript monorepo, found Cursor Pro ($20/mo) completed 4 of 5 tasks without human fixups at a median 11m 45s …
Independent benchmarking by Artificial Analysis found that xAI's Grok 4.7, despite keeping Grok 4.6's $2 per million input and $6 per million output token pricing, roughly doubled cost per task from $…
SpaceX's reported all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, at $60 billion values a coding product whose real asset is the per-turn policy — what the model sees, which tools it can reac…
A developer running the open-source Hermes agent framework tested whether xAI's Grok should replace a free local model as the system's default, setting a pre-committed ≥90% pass bar on an 18-command b…
A developer released llm-api-adapter, an open-source Python library that provides a unified interface for function calling across 57 model IDs from nine LLM providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Goo…
President Donald Trump announced the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, a one-page voluntary AI safety accord signed on September 29, 2026 by Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI and xA…
The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked enforcement of Minnesota's HF 1606 on or about October 2, 2026, pausing the anti-nudification law while xAI's First Amendment challenge in X.AI …
The St. Louis-based 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted Elon Musk's xAI an injunction halting Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images while the company's law…
XAI released the official TypeScript SDK for its SpaceXAI API, published as the npm package @xai-official/sdk and requiring Node.js 22.13 or later. The SDK is experimental, covers the Responses API pl…
XAI released Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite on 2026-10-01, a video model with a 1k context window that accepts text, image, and PDF inputs, according to the provider announcement indexed by models.dev. N…
Axionry Engineering reported that its AI phone interviewer runs on a custom LiveKit pipeline at about 2.5¢ per minute, down from roughly 10¢ per minute on a managed voice platform, a 75% cost cut. The…
XAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite launched on Venice.ai at $0.04 per clip, less than half the $0.09 entry price of the flagship Grok Imagine 1.5, which starts at $0.09 per clip for 480p output and can reach…
CometAPI announced on September 30 that a single API key now provides access to more than 500 AI models, with CEO Lee Sonic saying the gateway is meant to spare developers from juggling separate regis…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the executive branch to use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI," while leaving the statuto…
Elon Musk sat beside President Donald Trump at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026, where leaders of major AI companies signed "The White House Accord on Superintelligence: A Joint Commitment on…
President Donald Trump signed a voluntary AI safety pact, the "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities," with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia at a September 29, 2026 lunch, estab…
President Trump signed an executive order on September 29 establishing America.gov, an AI-powered federal portal that consolidates roughly 29,000 government websites into a single conversational inter…
OpenAI unveiled its always-on AI agent "dot" at its DevDay event in San Francisco on Tuesday, but the most obvious web address for the name, dot.com, redirects to Grok Bot, the rival always-on agent p…
An independent developer released Open Dots, an open-source, self-hosted AI workspace positioned as an alternative to OpenAI Dots, offering chat, a deny-by-default action gateway with approval prompts…
Liquid launched its Co-Invest AI trading assistant on Grok on August 26, 2026, letting users link Liquid brokerage accounts and place trades across crypto perpetuals, US stocks, forex, commodities, an…