xAI just launched Grok Bot, an always-on team of AI agents that get their own computers in the cloud to work across apps, inboxes, and websites 24/7. They can log into tools without clean APIs, finish multi-step jobs end to end, and coordinate with each other in group chats. The beta is live today for SuperGrok and Cursor paid subscribers on desktop and iOS.
xAI just rolled out Imagine Image 2.0 as the new Quality Mode across grok.com and its mobile apps. Built for practical design work, the model brings precise local tweaks via a magic wand tool, background removal, and multi-reference support for up to 5 images. It also jumped to second place globally on Arena's text-to-image and editing leaderboards.
xAI just upgraded its Imagine Video 1.5 model, adding image and voice references alongside native 1080p text-to-video generation. Creators can now submit up to seven reference images to lock faces, products, or scenes across multiple clips, keeping character voices consistent throughout. Native 1080p and text-to-video are live for everyone, while reference tools roll out first to US paid subscribers.
xAI just released Grok Voice 2.0, a speech-to-speech model that reasons through queries in parallel while speaking, cutting time-to-first-audio down to 0.7 seconds. It beat GPT-Realtime-2.1 on Artificial Analysis benchmarks and costs $0.08 per minute, making high-speed, human-like voice agents practical for real-world phone calls.
xAI just brought Grok 4.5, its smartest coding model, to millions of GitHub Copilot developers across VS Code, Copilot CLI, and cloud agents. You can simply pick it from the model selector (though some enterprise accounts require an admin toggle first), or access it directly via xAI's console starting at $2 per million input tokens.
xAI just rolled out Build Mode in early beta for Grok, letting users turn chat prompts into interactive websites, apps, and even 3D games. The model writes the code and runs a live preview right inside the chat window with zero setup required, and projects can be published instantly to a grok.me link or custom domain. It is currently limited to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers.
xAI just launched a free Grok add-on for Google Workspace, embedding its AI directly alongside your files in Sheets, Slides, and Docs. It can write formulas by citing specific cells, turn outlines into complete presentations using web research, and draft structured docs using context from Drive or Gmail. Why it matters: all generated outputs are normal, fully editable changes rather than rigid exports.
xAI just introduced Workflows in Grok Build, turning natural language prompts into orchestration scripts that fan work out across parallel agents. It deploys 128 agents by default and up to 1,024 for heavy jobs to review code, verify findings, and synthesize reports in the background. Completed workflows can be saved as slash commands for team reuse.
xAI just rolled out a Grok add-in for Microsoft Outlook, giving paid X and SuperGrok subscribers an inbox agent. It summarizes days-long email threads into key decisions, drafts replies matching your tone, cleans up inbox clutter, and reads attachments alongside live web and X search without leaving your mail client.
xAI just launched a free Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel, bringing its AI directly into your spreadsheets. Users can ask questions about data in plain English, generate formulas, run scenarios, and auto-insert charts citing exact cells. It also connects to Google Drive and SharePoint, and works across Word and PowerPoint too.
xAI just launched Automations in Grok, letting the AI run repetitive tasks on a schedule or automatically whenever matching emails arrive. Each execution opens a real conversation thread with saved history, tool connections, and custom reporting options. Scheduled tasks are free for everyone, while email triggers require a SuperGrok subscription.
xAI just released Grok 4.5, its flagship model tailored for coding, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. Trained alongside Cursor on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, it delivers 80 TPS generation speed and double the token efficiency of rivals, priced at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens. It is currently available with temporary free access in Grok Build and Cursor.
xAI just open-sourced Grok Build, releasing the harness behind its coding agent and terminal UI on GitHub. The release details how it handles context assembly and tool dispatch, while offering plug-in support for MCP servers and subagents. Best of all, developers can compile it themselves and run it fully local-first with their own inference.
xAI's Grok Build CLI was caught silently packaging and uploading users' entire code repositories—including Git histories, SSH keys, and secrets—to Google Cloud storage. The company has since disabled the uploads server-side, and Elon Musk promised all previously synced user data will be utterly purged.
Elon Musk just announced that xAI will release Grok 4.5 to the public tomorrow following positive beta feedback. Musk described the new release as an Opus-class model that runs faster, is more token-efficient, and costs less than existing top-tier competitors.
xAI just rolled out Voice Agent Builder, a no-code tool designed to create human-sounding voice agents using its Grok Voice tech. It is live now and priced at $0.05 per minute. If you are building phone bots or voice assistants, entry costs just dropped noticeably.
Elon Musk just revealed that Grok 4.5 is now in private beta across SpaceX and Tesla. The 1.5 trillion parameter model incorporates Cursor data during training, with early evals reportedly rivaling or beating Claude Opus. Musk also claims SpaceX will roll out scratch-trained models every month this year.
xAI just rolled out Grok Imagine Video 1.5 across grok.com and its API, claiming the top spot on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard. Built on the autoregressive Aurora engine, it costs just $0.14 per second at 720p with native synchronized audio—roughly 86% cheaper than Sora 2 Pro. The catch is that output is currently capped at 720p.
xAI just made its flagship Grok 4.3 model available on Amazon Bedrock, opening the doors for AWS developers to integrate it directly into their workflows. xAI touts the model as an industry leader in both tool-calling speed and low hallucination rates. It gives cloud builders direct access to Grok inside Amazon's enterprise-grade security stack.
xAI just rolled out Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview, giving developers early access to its upgraded image generation model via API. The incremental release lets builders test and integrate the updated capabilities before a wider public rollout.
