Microsoft is reportedly in talks with xAI to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI model on Azure AI Foundry for developers and internal teams. The move reinforces Satya Nadella's push to turn Azure into the go-to home for every major AI model, even if bringing Musk's tech aboard escalates friction with partner OpenAI.
Elon Musk just announced that an early beta of Grok 3.5 is dropping next week exclusively for SuperGrok subscribers. Musk claims the model can accurately answer complex questions about rocket engines and electrochemistry by reasoning from first principles to generate answers not found on the web.
xAI just rolled out Grok Vision, letting users point their smartphone camera at objects, text, or signs and ask questions in real time. Voice mode also picked up multilingual audio and live search. It catches Grok up with ChatGPT and Gemini, though vision is currently iOS-only.
xAI just rolled out Grok 3 Mini, bringing built-in reasoning to developers at a fraction of the cost of legacy models. Available now via API alongside the standard Grok 3, the Mini version serves full reasoning traces starting at $0.30 per million input tokens. It puts serious price pressure on rivals while rivaling top-tier reasoning benchmarks.
Grok just released the first version of Grok Studio, introducing built-in code execution and Google Drive integration. The workspace opens generated documents, code, reports, and browser games in a separate window, letting you collaborate with Grok in real time.
xAI just released the API for its flagship Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini reasoning models. Standard Grok 3 matches Claude 3.7 Sonnet pricing at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with faster tiers available. Notably, the API maxes out at a 131,072 tokens context window, falling short of the 1 million tokens xAI promised in February.
Elon Musk just announced that xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction, valuing xAI at $80B and X at $33B. The tie-up officially merges xAI’s AI models and compute infrastructure with X’s real-time data and 600M active users. It brings Musk's frontier AI lab and distribution pipe under a single roof.
X just teamed up with Telegram to bring its Grok chatbot directly into the messaging app. If you subscribe to both Telegram Premium and X Premium, you can now chat with Grok in your message streams. It marks a notable move to expand Grok's reach beyond X's own walled garden.
xAI just rolled out image generation capabilities in its developer API, starting with a single model called grok-2-image-1212. It outputs up to 10 JPGs per request at $0.07 per image, sitting right between FLUX and Ideogram pricing. The catch: you can't customize size or style yet, and prompts are automatically revised by a chat model.
Nvidia and Elon Musk's xAI just officially joined the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), a coalition led by Microsoft, BlackRock, GIP, and Abu Dhabi's MGX. The alliance aims to mobilize $30 billion in private capital to build massive data centers and energy infrastructure, primarily in the US. Why it matters: Surging compute and power demands are pushing fierce tech rivals into unprecedented infrastructure alliances.
xAI just confirmed that users can now ask Grok anything simply by replying to an X post with "grok". Powered by the rollout of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, the update turns any reply thread into a live AI chat without leaving the timeline.
xAI just purchased a 1-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its massive Colossus supercomputer cluster. The facility complements an existing site that features an $80 million wastewater recycling plant and the world's largest Tesla Megapack deployment to reduce strain on local grids. Why it matters: Elon Musk's race for raw computing scale isn't slowing down, and xAI is locking down the physical footprint needed to power next-gen frontier models.
xAI just rolled out its Voice Mode to all iOS users on the Grok app for free, removing the need for a paid subscription. The update brings natural conversational AI straight to any iOS device running the official app. It is a clear push to grab daily voice users from rival assistants.
A federal judge just shot down Elon Musk's request for a preliminary injunction to block OpenAI's shift into a for-profit company, ruling the plaintiffs failed to meet the bar for extraordinary relief. The decision keeps OpenAI's restructuring on track for now, though Musk's broader legal claims against the startup and Microsoft will still head to trial.
California state Senator Scott Wiener just introduced SB 53, a fresh AI bill reviving the least controversial parts of the vetoed SB 1047. It shields whistleblowers at frontier AI labs from retaliation if they report catastrophic risks, while proposing a public cloud computing cluster called CalCompute for researchers.
xAI just rolled out an uncensored voice mode for Grok 3 subscribers that goes where ChatGPT won't. Users can toggle personalities like an "unhinged" mode that curses and screams before hanging up, or an 18+ "Sexy" mode built for phone sex. Why it matters: While OpenAI keeps tight guardrails on voice AI, xAI is doing the exact opposite by letting its model run completely wild.
Elon Musk just made xAI's flagship Grok 3 model temporarily free for everyone, no subscription required. Users can test drive the new "Think" reasoning and "DeepSearch" modes across the web and app, though paying tiers still keep server priority, voice mode, and the extra-heavy Big Brain features.
Elon Musk's new Grok 3 model might top benchmark leaderboards, but security firm Adversa AI just found it failed three out of four basic jailbreak tests and leaked its entire system prompt. Why it matters: as vulnerable models power autonomous AI agents, simple prompt injections could turn into real-world corporate security breaches.
Elon Musk’s xAI just released its latest flagship Grok 3 family, introducing specialized reasoning models to compete with o3-mini alongside a new DeepSearch tool. Trained on roughly 200,000 GPUs, it claims top benchmark scores and offers a high-compute Big Brain mode. Access is currently rolling out to X Premium+ subscribers.
Elon Musk's xAI just rolled out Grok 3, trained on roughly 200,000 GPUs with 10x more compute than its predecessor. The lineup includes new reasoning models designed to rival OpenAI's o3-mini on tough math problems, alongside a web research tool called DeepSearch. It is rolling out first to X's Premium+ subscribers.
