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.
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 …
A new House bill introduced by Reps. Greg Casar, Sara Jacobs, and Valerie Foushee would impose an excise tax on major AI companies, starting at 2% on AI tokens and 3% on AI service revenue, with rates…
Elon Musk told the G20 tech ministerial meeting on September 1 that the US and its allies must develop new energy sources outside China to avoid an insurmountable AI disadvantage, citing China's addit…
The Pentagon added xAI's Grok to its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT, offering a secure, government-accredited version for handling Controlled Unclassified Information at I…
GitHub's trending page this week is dominated by AI agent tools and large-model efficiency, with four of the top five repositories related to the AI ecosystem. Notable projects include DeepSeek Harnes…
XAI's Grok chatbot now integrates with Microsoft's Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive, enabling it to read emails, manage schedules, and browse cloud files. The Outlook Mail and Calendar connectors, docu…
A developer's hands-on comparison found that Grok (xAI) outperformed Cursor paired with Claude 3.5 Sonnet in catching a subtle race condition in asynchronous database calls, though it showed a slightl…
The Pentagon has launched custom versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok on its GenAI.mil portal, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools tailored to 'warfig…
XAI's Grok Bot, a cloud-based coding agent, completes tasks in 7 to 12 seconds that previously took hours with Anthropic's Claude Code, according to Gavin Baker of Andreessen Horowitz, who compared th…
Together AI, a San Francisco-based cloud infrastructure provider for open-source AI models, has partnered with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN to build a 250-megawatt data center that will supply 120,000 AI chi…
SpaceXAI is on course for an early-September release of Grok 4.7, following Elon Musk's August 12th promise that the model would be ready in three to four weeks and would surpass every available rival…
The US Department of War launched Starshield AI's Grok for Government on August 31, making xAI's generative AI platform available to over 3 million military and civilian personnel on the GenAI.mil inf…
AI startup xAI released Solaris, the first Interface World Model, which generates apps and websites in real time as an operating system layer, eliminating the need for intermediate code and enabling d…
Anthropic merged Claude chat and Claude Cowork memory on August 25, 2026, into one shared store, lowering the switching cost between its own products. The move addresses the downside of AI memory lock…
In a controlled race, OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol achieved verified remote code execution in 9 of 11 vulnerable-target runs, the most among seven AI models tested, while Zhipu AI's GLM 5.3 verified 8 runs. T…
OpenAI will terminate Cursor's access to its coding models on November 12, 2026, following SpaceX's planned $60 billion acquisition of Cursor parent Anysphere, citing concerns that SpaceX will not com…
Meta and xAI released new autonomous coding models in August 2026, with Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 and xAI's Grok 4.6 showing significant advances in software engineering benchmarks. Grok 4.6 offers a larg…
Elon Musk agreed with a viral tweet arguing that 1990s 3D games like id Software's Doom were the precursor to modern AI, replying 'True' to a post by X user Dan (@KettlebellDan). The theory holds that…
An engineer built an autonomous job-search agent using xAI's Grok Bot to apply to software engineering roles while they slept. The agent runs every four hours, scores job matches against the engineer'…
XAI's Grok-Imagine-Image model, available on Replicate, offers state-of-the-art image generation and editing, supporting text prompts and optional input images for both pure generation and guided edit…