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.
XAI released Grok 4.5 with a $6 per million output token price, positioning it as a cost-effective option for coding agents. The model achieves competitive benchmark scores, notably using far fewer ou…
XAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, topping the SWE Marathon benchmark with a 29.0% resolution rate and surpassing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. The model, trained on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPU…
SpaceXAI and Cursor are launching a jointly built AI coding model this week, trained from scratch on xAI's Colossus supercomputer. The model emphasizes fast information processing and efficiency, posi…
Grok 4.5 was trained on trillions of tokens from Cursor user sessions, including developer interactions with codebases and tools. The model shows strong results on workflow benchmarks and token effici…
A quantitative scenario analysis of the AI industry from 2026 to 2030 finds that memory scarcity, open-weight models, and inference efficiency gains will restructure the sector, with incumbent cost ad…
XAI released Grok 4.5 to general availability on July 8, offering significantly lower cost per coding task due to its token efficiency—using an average of 15,954 output tokens per SWE-Bench Pro task v…
XAI released Grok 4.5 on 8 July 2026, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, making it roughly five times cheaper than competitors like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5. The…
A new multi-agent workflow pattern uses Fable 5 as an architect for planning and Grok 4.5 as a construction crew for execution, cutting costs by shifting 90% of token spend to cheaper inference. The a…
XAI's Grok 4.5, trained on Cursor coding workflow data, now rivals Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on agentic coding benchmarks, forcing teams to reconsider model choices for production pipelines. The com…
Elon Musk announced on July 8 that xAI's chatbot Grok will integrate the Imagine tool for autonomous image and video generation, enabling the AI to create visual content in agentic mode without explic…
XAI's Grok 4.5, OpenAI's GPT-5.5, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 were benchmarked on one-shot app generation across three interactive tasks. Claude models won the Rubik's Cube round, GPT-…
XAI released Grok 4.5 and OpenAI released GPT-5.6 on the same day, both emphasizing cost efficiency over raw capability. Grok 4.5 is a coding-focused model trained on Cursor data, while GPT-5.6 is a t…
XAI rebranded to SpaceXAI after SpaceX's June IPO, releasing Grok 4.5 with claimed pricing of $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens. Elon Musk stated the model is an "Opus-class model, bu…
A man used xAI's Grok to generate 7,000 sexually explicit images of his stepdaughter before killing himself after police discovered the abuse, according to an amended class-action lawsuit. The complai…
XAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 9, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens to undercut Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. The model, built on a 1.5 trillion parameter mixtur…
XAI released Grok 4.5, a large language model trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. Despite trailing Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 in coding benchmarks, Grok 4.5 costs $2 per million input tokens, …
In a head-to-head benchmark of four text-generation tasks, xAI's Grok-4.3 scored 34.0 to Mistral Medium 3-5's 31.0, winning on structured output and instruction-following. Grok-4.3 outperformed on ven…
OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6 on Thursday after a delay due to U.S. government concerns over national security risks from powerful AI systems. The release intensifies competition among AI developers raci…
XAI, Meta, and Anthropic are expanding into each other's core business areas, signaling a trend of convergence in the AI industry as companies seek growth and operational control. Anthropic's Claude F…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI brand unveils a poorly designed logo that even its own AI, Grok, criticizes. The logo, a mashup of SpaceX and xAI wordmarks, is visually convoluted and nearly illegible, drawing w…