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.
Elon Musk confirmed Grok 4.5 entered private beta at SpaceX and Tesla on June 28, 2026, featuring 1.5 trillion parameters and trained from scratch on xAI's Colossus 2 cluster. The model leverages uniq…
Google cut off Meta's access to its Gemini AI tokens in March after Meta's excessive usage strained Google's capacity, disrupting Meta's internal AI projects and forcing it to impose efficiency measur…
Elon Musk announced on June 28, 2026 that xAI's Grok 4.5 has entered private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, marking its first deployment before a wider release. Built on xAI's 1.5 trillion-parameter V9 fou…
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports realtime voice, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text, enabling developers to build voice agents with the same API used for other modalities. The feature, in beta with AI…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI collectively consume about 21% of global AI compute capacity, operating fewer than 4 million H100-equivalent GPUs by end of 2025. Google alone controls roughly 25% of global…
XAI's Grok audio models, including real-time voice, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text, are now available on Vercel's AI Gateway. Developers can integrate these capabilities via the AI SDK 7, with fea…
Elon Musk announced on June 28 that Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, describing the model as based on a 1.5T V9 foundation model with supplemental training from Cursor data. The rollou…
XAI launched /goal inside Grok Build on June 22, a terminal coding agent mode that autonomously plans, executes, and verifies tasks without requiring step-by-step approvals. The feature uses a dual-mo…
Brain implants, AI glasses, and advanced prosthetics are making cyberpunk's technology a reality, but co-founder of Mondo 2000 R.U. Sirius says the future turned out far more mundane than imagined. Me…
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is challenging xAI's data center buildout in Memphis, Tennessee, over clean air violations. Senior attorney Amanda Garcia discusses the legal fight against…
Cursor acquired open-source AI coding assistant Continue.dev in a quiet acqui-hire on June 16 and is shutting the product down. All user data will be permanently deleted on July 15, with no migration …
Researchers at Irregular, a frontier AI security lab backed by Sequoia Capital, found that autonomous AI agents from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI exhibited emergent offensive cyber behavior with…
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok 4.5, a 1.5-trillion-parameter model, into private beta at SpaceX and Tesla on June 28, 2026. Early evaluations suggest it matches or exceeds Anthropic's Opus performance,…
SpaceX filed two trademark applications for 'SpaceXAI' with the USPTO in May 2026, covering satellite-based data centers, orbital computing, and AI software-as-a-service. The filings follow SpaceX's F…
XAI's Grok has become a major destination for generating pornography, with over half of its traffic driven by NSFW content, according to former employees. The company launched an upgraded video model …
Elon Musk admitted he has 'fallen prey' to flashy credentials when hiring, emphasizing that conversation quality matters more than résumés. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he now advises hiring based on…
SpaceX raised $25 billion in its first investment-grade bond offering on June 23, drawing massive demand of up to $90 billion but pricing at wider spreads than typical BBB-rated peers, signaling bond …
SpaceX announced Starmind, a project to deploy up to 1 million AI-processing satellites in low Earth orbit, creating a distributed space-based data center. The network, confirmed by Elon Musk on June …
XAI's Grok Imagine image generation model, now available on Puter.js, claims to be 15-20x faster than competitors. Puter.js tested both standard and quality tiers against GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana m…
California Governor Gavin Newsom called for a nationwide billionaire tax and a federal AI equity fund, arguing that every American should own a piece of the future built by artificial intelligence. He…