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xAI's Grok Build, an agentic coding agent for the terminal, is now in beta for SuperGrok and X Premium+ users, enabling natural-language code generation, planning mode, parallel sub-agents, and image/video generation.

Elon Musk announces that next year xAI will release a 0.5 trillion parameter Grok model, alongside the open-source release of Grok-3.

Elon Musk announced that the Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T parameters) has finished training with strong evaluations, and will be publicly released in 2-3 weeks after fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.

An analysis of leaked financial data shows Anthropic posting its first operating profit while xAI burned over $4 billion, revealing divergent AI monetization strategies and implications for developers and enterprise adoption.

A Reuters analysis reveals that Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot has minimal adoption in US government agencies, appearing in only a few examples compared to hundreds for OpenAI and Google, suggesting it lags behind competitors in performance and trust.

Elon Musk shares an image generated by Mythos showing humans using the AI tool.

Grok Imagine Agent Mode is now available on the Grok iOS app, allowing users to generate consistent characters across scenes for more cinematic storytelling.

An analysis of AI compute usage reveals that frontier labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, and Meta currently use less than half of global AI compute, but their share is growing rapidly, which could impact scaling trends.

SpaceX, facing Grok's underwhelming adoption and scandals like nudifying features, is betting heavily on AI to compete with Big Tech, filing an S-1 that touts Grok Business and xAI Gov products while acknowledging significant risks.

This paper presents an experimental study investigating whether conversational XAI assistants improve user performance in terms of prediction accuracy, model understanding, and error identification compared to Q&A-based assistance, with preliminary results showing no significant performance differences.

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals extensive financial interconnections between Musk's companies, with Tesla, xAI, and X playing key roles, and highlights Elon Musk's dual role as both the company's biggest asset and risk factor.

Ethan He, former head of world model at xAI and key contributor to Grok Imagine video generation, announced his departure. He built the multimodal video model from scratch in three months after joining xAI in July 2025.

SpaceX has disclosed in its IPO filing that Grok's 'Spicy' and 'Unhinged' AI modes, which generate racy content with fewer safety filters, could expose the company to regulatory scrutiny and reputational damage. The filing highlights potential liabilities as SpaceX's AI unit, including xAI and X, reported over $6.3 billion in operating losses last year.

SpaceX has committed over $2.8 billion to purchase gas turbines to power AI data centers for its xAI unit, highlighting energy constraints in the AI boom and regulatory controversies.

xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 on $3.2 billion in revenue, and SpaceX's IPO filing reveals plans to scale Grok to trillions of parameters, requiring substantial additional compute spending.

Elon Musk's xAI faces a lawsuit from the NAACP over unregulated gas turbines at its Memphis data center, while SpaceX's IPO filing reveals plans to buy $2.8 billion more turbines for AI infrastructure.

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute capacity from the Colossus 1 data center, in a deal that could bring xAI over $40 billion in revenue.

SpaceX has filed for an IPO, potentially the largest ever, with a $1.75 trillion valuation, driven by Starlink revenue and its merger with xAI. The filing reveals significant financials, risk factors, and Musk's 85% voting control.

Elon Musk highlights a new Grok menu that can be accessed by tapping the logo, based on a positive user reaction.

Elon Musk announces that release notes for Grok Build will be published daily, with bug fixes shipping including copy-only path on ReadTool block and crash condition guards.