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Grok 4.6, developed by xAI, matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance on agentic tasks while costing 60% less, completing complex tasks in roughly 53 steps compared to Claude Opus 5's 103 steps. The efficienc…

XAI released Grok 4.6, a 1.5T-parameter model that scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, roughly in line with GPT-5.6 Sol Max but behind Claude Opus/Fable, with 88.4% on Terminal-Be…

XAI President Michael Nicolls admitted in an internal memo that the company is clearly behind rivals, with Model FLOPs Utilization at about 11% and a target of 50% in the next few months, according to…

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has launched River AI, a startup building an open-source personal AI stack that adapts to users, with General Catalyst as a lead investor in its Seed/Series A rou…

Anthropic's unreleased Claude research model improved a key bound on the Riemann Hypothesis from 41.6 to 67.2, surpassing the best prior human result, according to Anthropic. The model, guided by non-…

Cognition added xAI's Grok 4.6 to Devin Desktop and Devin CLI on August 12th, giving developers another foundation model for agent-driven coding. In Cognition's FrontierCode 1.1 Extended benchmark, Gr…

XAI and Databricks announced a partnership on June 18 at the 2026 Data + AI Summit to integrate Grok models natively into Databricks' Agent Bricks platform, targeting enterprise document understanding…

XAI released Grok 4.6 on Wednesday, claiming it matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on several benchmarks, including the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, after partnering with and reportedly acquiring…

Elon Musk predicted that xAI's upcoming Grok 4.7 model will "exceed all current models," intensifying competition among xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic in the AI race.…

XAI's Grok 4.6 achieved an 80% benchmark score on the HTB-Challenger Benchmark, solving 14 of 16 Hack The Box challenges with zero false positives, surpassing all previously tested models in both spee…

XAI is hiring a Human Data Manager in Palo Alto, California, with a salary range of $100,000 to $186,000 per year, to lead data projects that shape the behavior of its Grok AI model. The role involves…

XAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work, available via API, Cursor, and Grok Build. The model features a 500,000-token context window a…

SpaceXAI, the name xAI now trades under since its absorption into SpaceX, has shipped Grok 4.6, a post-training update to the same 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 foundation as Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per mi…

SpaceXAI, the AI division Elon Musk folded xAI into earlier this year, released Grok 4.6, which ties OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at a score of 61, just one p…

XAI released Grok 4.6, a model designed for long-running agents and interactive visual work, claiming it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The model shows mixed benchm…

XAI's Grok 4.6, launched in early August 2026, scored 1,753 Elo on the GDPval-AA v2 leaderboard, placing third overall and becoming the highest-ranked model from any company other than Anthropic. The …

A federal judge refused to halt enforcement of California's Assembly Bill 2013, the Generative Artificial Intelligence Training Data Transparency Act, in a case brought by Elon Musk's xAI against Cali…

Anthropic's Fable 5 model generated 75% as much spend as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model in July, according to Ramp's AI Index, indicating weaker demand for Anthropic's priciest model among businesses. Ram…

Elon Musk told SpaceX employees at a company all-hands meeting that SpaceX will train its Grok AI on the sum total of all SpaceX information, including employee data, saying 'it will be trained on you…

Simon Willison joined Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal on the Oxide and Friends podcast to discuss a turbulent period in AI, including a security incident at Hugging Face that was detected and diagno…