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.
Yann LeCun, a prominent AI researcher, called Elon Musk's xAI a 'failure' in a CNBC interview, citing the departure of nearly all founding members and questioning the company's ability to compete with…
Anjney Midha, founder of AMP, argues that the AI scaling race is not just about acquiring more GPUs but about maximizing the efficiency of existing hardware, citing xAI's sub-10% Model FLOPs Utilizati…
AI pioneer Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI 'kind of a failure,' citing difficulty hiring top talent and reliance on renting infrastructure to recoup costs. LeCun also warned that AI labs face a 'big…
Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told CNBC that Elon Musk's AI lab xAI is 'kind of a failure,' citing difficulty hiring top talent after all non-Musk cofounders left and the company's need …
Big Tech companies are framing opposition to AI data centers as unAmerican criminal conspiracy, as Elon Musk's xAI builds two massive data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, that are pumping toxic polluta…
Federal regulators voted unanimously to allow AI data centers and other large energy users to connect more quickly to the U.S. electric transmission system, backing a Trump administration plan to acce…
A developer built a scanner that fires prompt-injection probes at a self-hosted AI agent and tested it across five model backends, finding leak rates ranging from 0% to 90% depending solely on the mod…
SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding platform Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced June 16, positioning the newly public aerospace giant as a direct competitor to Op…
Yann LeCun, the 'godfather of AI' and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned of an AI bubble, citing high costs and talent issues. LeCun, who is selling an alternative AI app…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in stock on June 16, days after its Nasdaq IPO, marking the largest acquisition in AI developer tooling history. The deal…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched the Talent Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort for engineers and talent leaders building AI-driven recruiting systems. The program aims to address the challenge o…
The Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire over 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in Iran within 96 hours, according to a sworn declaration by the Pentagon's AI chief Cameron Stanley. The revelation…
The Trump administration's Department of Justice is intervening to protect Elon Musk's xAI from a lawsuit over pollution from its Memphis data center, arguing that shutting down the facility threatens…
Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton criticized Elon Musk's xAI and warned of growing risks in AI development, declining an advisory role at the company. Hinton raised concerns about job dis…
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% stock tax on major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to create a public fund potentiall…
Cursor and SpaceX have agreed to co-develop coding and knowledge agent models, with SpaceX holding an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion instead. The deal aims to combine Curs…
A new open-source benchmark platform called AIStupidLevel continuously monitors 21 production AI models from 7 providers for performance degradation. The platform runs 24/7 tests including coding, dee…
The Pentagon disclosed in a legal filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets within 96 hours, marking the first formal acknowledgment of a commercial generative A…
Sam Altman outbid Elon Musk to recruit Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture, for Google's Gemini initiative. Shazeer's return to Google follows a $2.7 billion licensing deal for h…
A comparative analysis of scale-out RoCE network traffic patterns in training large language models reveals that hyperscale deployments like xAI's Grok 4.0 generate network loads orders of magnitude h…