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.
On August 7, Cloudflare merged Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single control plane, unifying billing and raising frontier model rate limits from 20 to 50 requests per minute. The migration requires …
Grok Bot, an agentic assistant from the team behind Cursor, is available exclusively through the Cursor Ultra plan at $200 per month, with a 7-day free trial that requires a credit card upfront and is…
XAI's Grok Bot is a multi-agent assistant platform that lets users run multiple specialized AI agents, each with its own cloud computer and memory, capable of delegating tasks to each other and syncin…
AI Weekly Issue #521 reports that frontier AI has split into three distinct markets—controlling access to intelligence, owning models outright, and deciding which model receives each job—changing the …
Grok Bot, a new agentic application from xAI following its acquisition of Cursor, wins on ease of setup and cross-agent memory sharing, while Open Claw offers flexibility for technical users and ChatG…
SpaceX, in an employee address posted on X on August 11th, framed making life multiplanetary and understanding the universe as its next challenge, integrating its AI ventures like xAI and Grok into it…
The Economist analyzed 55,940 sentences and 1.2 million words from human-written articles and AI-generated versions by OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and xAI's Grok, finding th…
XAI released Grok 4.6 on August 7, a language model built on the same 1.5 trillion-parameter V9 foundation as Grok 4.5 but with improved post-training, including better supervised fine-tuning and rein…
XAI released Grok Build version 1.0.0 on August 7, 2026, after a 10-week beta that included roughly 100 updates. The terminal-based coding agent, which transitioned to the Grok 4.5 model, was open-sou…
XAI launched Grok Bot in early beta, an AI teammate that signs into tools and completes tasks, available today for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers on desktop and iO…
A court-records watch using CourtListener's RECAP mirror of PACER has identified 23 federal lawsuits naming a major AI company as a party, filed between 2026-07-13 and 2026-08-06, spanning product-lia…
RuntimeWire launched RuntimeWire Investigations on August 11, a dedicated section for original reporting on startup and AI companies, founders and investors, featuring exclusives built from documents,…
Sequoia Capital committed roughly $10 billion to artificial intelligence and reindustrialization investments, its largest bet ever, announced around August 6, 2026. The commitment builds on a $7 billi…
River AI, a two-month-old startup co-founded by former xAI researcher Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in an initial funding round led by General Catalyst and Amp PBC, with participation from …
Sequoia Capital has committed approximately $10 billion to artificial intelligence and reindustrialization, marking the largest investment in the venture firm's 54-year history. The commitment, announ…
River AI, founded by former xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, is seeking up to $1 billion in funding at a valuation of roughly $5 billion to develop personalized AI agents that users can retrain. The co…
Grok 4.6 appears close to public release after the unreleased xAI model briefly surfaced in Cursor's production model picker on August 10th and an outside developer received preview access hours later…
Razer and the National University of Singapore launched the Razer-NUS Joint AI Research Lab on August 5, 2026, to develop Gaming Artificial Narrow Intelligence (GANI) models for Project AVA, Razer's h…
Anthropic has struck a US$9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin mining company, to secure 191 megawatts of computing capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus over a 20-year term. The agreem…
Netlify's AI Gateway now routes requests through OpenRouter to reach models from DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral, Qwen, and xAI, but only those whose providers guarantee Zero Data Retention (ZDR) at request t…