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.
OpenAI cut off Cursor from its models starting November 12, 2024, after SpaceX acquired Cursor, citing Elon Musk's history and testimony about distillation; Anthropic had already banned xAI earlier th…
XAI released Grok 4.6 on 2026-08-12, a multimodal model supporting text, image, and PDF inputs with a 500k context window and 500k max output tokens. The model is available under the identifiers grok-…
SpaceX reported that about 2,000 customers in the greater Memphis and Southaven area have signed up for its discounted Starlink satellite internet service since late June, when the company began offer…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos was the only AI model to complete a full cyber kill chain autonomously in Booz Allen's Cyber Weapon Index, scoring 80 out of 100, while the next highest was xAI's Grok-4.5 at…
Emil Michael, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, sold his Perplexity AI stake in June for between $5 million and $25 million, according to financial disclosures rev…
The U.S. Department of Defense has added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil platform, which now serves more than 1.7 million users. The models operate in a secure envi…
The Pentagon added ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, expanding access to over 1.7 million active military and civilian personnel, while Anthropic's Claude rem…
Saudi Arabia opened LEAP 2026 in Riyadh with more than $15 billion in technology launches, investments, and partnerships, anchored by HUMAIN, the AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund and cha…
Saudi Arabia opened its LEAP tech conference on Monday with $15 billion in planned technology investments, including a 250 MW AI data center partnership between Together AI and Saudi-backed HUMAIN exp…
Apple raised new concerns in a supplemental brief filed Monday in its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that a former employee's use of company secrets and AI agents to learn simulations cr…
Elon Musk announced on Monday that xAI is giving all Grok bot users on X another free reset on token usage, following a previous reset tied to the rollout of Grok 4.6. The reset is accessible via the …
A new analysis by Berlin WahLLM comparing eight large language models, including ChatGPT and xAI's Grok, on 38 Wahl-O-Mat theses for Berlin's 2026 state election found that seven of the eight models s…
Gawkbot, an open-source alternative to xAI's Grok bot, lets users run AI bots locally on their own machines with their own API keys, offering per-action approvals and per-bot tool allowlists to minimi…
Two-thirds of European Union governments have pledged money to back an EU plan to create seven large AI compute hubs, the bloc's most significant industrial policy push in the global race for artifici…
As of September 1, 2026, three of six major AI vendors bind reasoning data to specific models, breaking multi-model conversation handoffs, according to a vendor census based on official documentation.…
OpenAI is ending its native integration with Cursor, citing concerns that SpaceX, which acquired Cursor, could misuse its models given a history of terms-of-service violations, including a distillatio…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 66, beating its predecessor Claude Opus 5 by 3 points and leading the industry. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and …
The US Department of Defense added OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok to its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, making secure, military-grade versions available to more than 3 million personnel for unclass…
Google DeepMind has launched agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite via the Gemini API, claiming an 88% reduction in token usage on long-video benchmarks while…
LatchBio's BiosecBench-Refusal benchmark, published September 1, 2026, found xAI's Grok 4.6 the top performer, scoring above 50% in both red-team refusal rates and routine answer rates, outperforming …