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 wire-level capture of xAI's Grok Build CLI (version 0.2.93) reveals that the tool uploads the entire repository by default, including files the agent is instructed not to read, to a Google Cloud Sto…
An engineer building a hard spending cap for LLM calls discovered that billing dashboards are rear-view mirrors, total spend is a useless number, and retry storms are the most expensive bug class. The…
Elon Musk abruptly postponed a live CNBC interview minutes before airtime, where he was expected to discuss SpaceX's market debut, Tesla, and his AI model Grok. The cancellation comes as SpaceX shares…
Tech billionaires have built AI by exploiting humanity's collective creative output, and the public deserves ownership and control over AI, not just compensation. Bernie Sanders' proposal for a 50% ta…
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok 4.5, a coding-focused AI model that claims to use 4.2x fewer output tokens than Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on benchmarks, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per milli…
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that a man used Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to generate 7,000 sexually explicit images of his stepdaughter, and that xAI (now SpaceXAI) failed to flag the abuse an…
A new benchmark measuring the political neutrality of 18 AI models from 12 labs across four regions found that 97 out of 108 measured positions landed left of center, with only xAI's Grok models appro…
XAI's Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens, matches GPT-4.5 on coding benchmarks, making it a cost-effective sub-agent for multi-model AI workflows. Developers can route structured tasks li…
Mesh LLM launched a peer-to-peer distributed AI inference platform that pools GPUs across machines to run large models on local hardware, challenging cloud providers. Security concerns emerged as xAI'…
The AI market is bifurcating into expensive frontier models and cheap 'good enough' models, with Grok 4.5's aggressive pricing signaling a margin collapse. Hardware suppliers like semiconductor compan…
XAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026, claiming top performance on agentic tool use benchmarks and pricing at $2 per million input tokens, roughly 60% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8. The model leads the…
A developer integrated xAI's Grok 4.5 model into Claude Code using a three-line setup with the API gateway byesu. The developer was motivated by Grok 4.5's coding focus and token efficiency, claiming …
XAI released Grok 4.5, achieving competitive coding benchmark scores at significantly lower pricing than rivals, positioning it as a cost-effective option for coding-agent routing. The model scored 83…
Sam Altman called Elon Musk 'homeboy' in a public exchange on X, criticizing Musk's proposal for orbital AI data centers as speculative compared to OpenAI's terrestrial Stargate infrastructure project…
President Donald Trump announced the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, urging AI companies including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI to build their own power generation for data ce…
Chinese AI companies are using a technique called distillation to copy American AI models, with Anthropic and OpenAI accusing firms like Alibaba's Qwen team of stealing intellectual property. Anthropi…
The Federal Trade Commission has received 873 complaints about Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, with users reporting issues including difficulty canceling subscriptions, throttled service, and censorship …
Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees to switch from Anthropic's Claude to his own company's Grok 4.5, admitting in a memo that Grok is inferior but arguing the cost savings justify the change. Tesla also…
XAI's Grok 4.5 ranked second on the Mercor APEX-SWE leaderboard with a 51.2% Pass@1 accuracy, trailing Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at 65.5%. The benchmark tests real-world software engineering tasks, h…
XAI's Grok Build terminal coding agent contains an undocumented Doom-like mini-game accessible via the /gboom command, confirmed by RuntimeWire testing on July 10th. The Easter egg is absent from publ…