Neowin News Feed for: Grok

Elon Musk's X must retain Grok AI records following illegal imagery reports

Paul Hill — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:08:01 +0000

Evidence of sexualized and criminal AI-generated imagery has led European officials to demand that Elon Musk's X preserve Grok's internal records. Read more...

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Neowin Deals — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:00:01 +0000

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xAI announces Grok Code Fast 1, a coding focused model that is fast and affordable

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:50:02 +0000

xAI has launched grok-code-fast-1, a new AI model designed for coding tasks, built on a new architecture and trained with extensive programming data. Read more...

Elon Musk says a kid-friendly 'Baby Grok' is on the way

Hamid Ganji — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:26:01 +0000

Elon Musk confirmed a new version of Grok for Children is down the road. It's called "Baby Grok" and dedicated to kid-friendly content. Read more...

Grok 4 will always snitch on you and email the feds if it suspects wrongdoing, report says

David Uzondu — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:44:02 +0000

A new test called SnitchBench suggests that the xAI's latest model, Grok 4, reports users if it detects signs of illegal behavior. Read more...

If you ask Grok 4 about Israel vs Palestine, it will consult Elon Musk before responding

David Uzondu — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:40:01 +0000

Grok 4's been out less than a day, and it's already controversial. Its takes on Israel vs Palestine seem filtered through Musk. Read more...

Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4, claiming top spot among industry AI models

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:40:01 +0000

Elon Musk's xAI has launched its new flagship AI model, Grok-4, which demonstrates leading performance in various academic, reasoning, and coding benchmarks. Read more...

Grok chatbot blocked in Türkiye over insults to Erdogan, Ataturk

Hamid Ganji — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:50:01 +0000

It seems that Grok's controversial responses are not limited to praising Hitler, and the chatbot has made some seriously insulting comments about Türkiye officials. Read more...

Musk disables Grok's text generation after 'anti-woke' chatbot praises Hitler

David Uzondu — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:04:01 +0000

Grok is once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. The LLM chatbot has been temporarily stripped of its text capabilities on X after it praised Hitler. Read more...

Durov and Musk partner to bring Grok to Telegram

Taras Buria — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:16:02 +0000

Telegram's founder announced a new partnership with Elon Musk, which will bring Grok AI to the messenger later this summer. Read more...

Criticism leads xAI to open source Grok system prompts

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 16 May 2025 02:36:01 +0000

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, addressed a controversy where its chatbot Grok produced unsolicited responses on the sensitive topic of 'white genocide'. Read more...

Altman mocks Musk's Grok AI over its sudden 'white genocide' obsession

David Uzondu — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:14:02 +0000

We still don't have a clear explanation for Grok's recent strange behavior. In the meantime, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has taken the opportunity to throw some shade, poking fun at the chatbot. Read more...

Grok can now remember your past chats thanks to its new memory feature

David Uzondu — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:04:01 +0000

Memory in chatbot LLMs has been a staple for rivals like ChatGPT & Gemini; now Elon Musk's Grok is catching up. Read more...

Grok can now generate documents, code, and browser games

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:58:01 +0000

Grok has officially announced a new tool called Grok Studio, allowing users to create documents and basic apps. Read more...

Microsoft promotes Copilot through Bing searches for competing AI assistants

Pradeep Viswanathan — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:10:02 +0000

Microsoft is testing a new interactive "Copilot block" in Bing search results, directly targeting users searching for competitor AI assistants. Read more...

Musk says Grok 3 will be rolled out in a week or two, claims it is 'scary smart'

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:38:01 +0000

Addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Elon Musk claimed that Grok 3 is in its final stage of development and will be available very soon. Read more...

The Grok AI standalone app is now available in the US for iOS users

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:36:01 +0000

Grok is now available as a standalone app on the App Store for iOS users in the US, after being tested in other regions. Read more...

X made Grok's AI image generator Aurora available for a while, here are the results

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:46:01 +0000

A few users on X could use Grok AI assistant's image generation feature Aurora, which mysteriously disappeared after a while. Read more...

You no longer need an X Premium account to chat with Grok

David Uzondu — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:24:02 +0000

X users without a blue checkmark can now chat with Grok, xAI's chatbot, but there are a few limitations. Read more...

Threads is copying this AI-powered feature from Elon Musk's X

David Uzondu — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:30:01 +0000

Threads is testing its own version of "Stories on X," featuring AI-powered summaries of trending topics for those in a hurry. Read more...

The hypocrisy of Elon Musk and his vision of an AI doomsday

Martin Hodás — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 11:00:01 +0000

Elon should be concerned with his own actions regarding Grok AI. For years, he has been warning us about the threat of artificial intelligence. Today, it seems like he was warning us about himself. Read more...

Elon Musk's xAI releases a beta version of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:50:01 +0000

Elon Musk's xAI has released betas of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, both are now available for Premium and Premium+ users on X. They are about as powerful as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Read more...

NOYB hits X with nine GDPR complaints for bad AI training practices

Paul Hill — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:36:01 +0000

The EU-based privacy organization NOYB has filed nine GDPR complaints against X in several countries for using people's data to train AI models without asking. This isn't allowed in the EU under GDPR. Read more...

Elon Musk is silently training his Grok AI on your X data, but you can stop him

Martin Hodás — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:46:01 +0000

X started training its AI chatbot Grok on the content published by users. The platform didn't inform the users and even surprised authorities in the EU where it might violate European laws. Read more...

Elon Musk says Grok 2 due in August, Grok 3 by end of year

Paul Hill — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:08:02 +0000

Elon Musk has confirmed on X that xAI's next large language models, Grok 2 and Grok 3, will arrive in August and by the year's end, respectively. He said Grok 3 will be "really something special." Read more...

xAI just raised a whopping $6 billion to help take on OpenAI, Google and Microsoft

John Callaham — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:46:01 +0000

xAI, the generative AI company founded by Elon Musk, just announced it had raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round to help boost the development of its Grok AI model, among other projects. Read more...

xAI is going to build a very powerful supercomputer to handle the next version of Grok

Paul Hill — Sun, 26 May 2024 06:34:01 +0000

Elon Musk has told xAI investors that the company is planning to build a compute gigafactory powered by a very powerful cluster of Nvidia H100 GPUs. It will be able to train new Grok iterations. Read more...

Elon Musk's X launches stories delivering trending news summarized by Grok AI

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sat, 04 May 2024 13:18:02 +0000

After releasing the Grok AI-1.5V model, Elon Musk's X has now announced a new feature called Stories on X, which will deliver the latest news summarized by Grok AI, only for premium users. Read more...

xAI releases new Grok-1.5V model to beat OpenAI's GPT-4

Omer Dursun — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:58:01 +0000

xAI launched Grok-1.5V, a new multimodal AI that can understand text, images, diagrams, and more. xAI claims Grok-1.5V outperforms competitors on key benchmarks such as RealWorldQA. Read more...

Elon Musk gives a glimpse at xAI's Grok chatbot

Paul Hill — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 08:28:02 +0000

Elon Musk has shown off screenshots of xAI's Grok AI chatbot. It has the unique ability to grab the latest information from Twitter, something other bots don't do. It is also more humorous. Read more...