Neowin News Feed for: Xai

Elon Musk's SpaceX aims for AI dominance with massive $60 billion Cursor acquisition

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:22:01 +0000

SpaceX is shaking up the tech world with a $60 billion play for Cursor. From rockets to AI-powered IDEs, see how Musk plans to outpace Google and OpenAI in the race for the ultimate developer tool. Read more...

Elon Musk's xAI goes all-in on video generation as OpenAI retreats to enterprise

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:58:01 +0000

Elon Musk sees a golden opportunity for xAI to conquer the consumer video market after OpenAI's exit from the business, citing increasing costs, legal issues, and a pivot to enterprise. Read more...

These are the biggest AI data centers owned by Big Tech

Ivan Jenic — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:00:01 +0000

Big Tech is spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure. Here are the 10 largest AI data centers in the US, so you can take a closer look at where that money is going. Read more...

SpaceX has acquired xAI to create the most valuable private company in the world

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:06:01 +0000

SpaceX has officially acquired xAI in a massive $1.25 trillion all-stock deal, merging Elon Musk's AI ambitions with his aerospace empire. Read more...

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...

Microsoft brings xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini models to Azure AI Foundry

Pradeep Viswanathan — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:01:05 +0000

Microsoft is expanding its Azure AI Foundry by adding xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini models. New features include a Model Router for automatic OpenAI model selection. 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...

Elon Musk's XAI Holdings is reportedly seeking to raise $20 billion from investors

Hamid Ganji — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:50:02 +0000

XAI Holdings, which consists of xAI and X social platform, is in talks with investors to raise $20 billion, eyeing a $120 billion valuation. 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...

OpenAI's GPT-4.5 dominates multiple categories on Chatbot Arena

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:14:01 +0000

OpenAI's GPT-4.5 has debuted, claiming top performance in various categories on Chatbot Arena, particularly in multi-turn conversations Read more...

Report: More than 400 million users use ChatGPT every week

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:36:01 +0000

ChatGPT is now reportedly used by more than 400 million people every week, while the company's enterprise customers have also doubled since 2024. Read more...

Elon Musk's xAI unveils Grok 3 reasoning model, "the smartest AI on Earth"

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:26:01 +0000

Elon Musk's xAI has officially launched Grok 3, which he describes as "the smartest AI on Earth", which includes reasoning capabilities and more. 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...

Elon Musk's xAI raises $6B Series C funding to catch up with OpenAI and others

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:34:01 +0000

Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has successfully raised another $6 billion in Series C funding. This funding will be used to enhance their computing infrastructure and more. Read more...

OpenAI tells investors not to invest in competing AI startups

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:16:01 +0000

After raising $6.6 billion in the latest funding round, OpenAI has asked its investors not to invest in competing startups such as Ilya Sutskever's SSI, Elon Musk's xAI, and Anthropic. 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...

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...

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...

xAI to unveil its chatbot to a limited group on Saturday

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:22:01 +0000

Elon Musk has said that xAI will be launching its chatbot to a limited number of users on Saturday. Musk didn't give details but claimed the chatbot excels in some areas compared to the competition. Read more...

Elon Musk is new owner of AI.com after OpenAI and Google

Omer Dursun — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:10:02 +0000

AI.com changed ownership from OpenAI to Elon Musk's X.ai. Its value was estimated at $3 million. The saga surrounding the domain spans more than 20 years, with the first owner allegedly being Google. Read more...

Elon Musk announces his own AI company to 'understand the true nature of the universe'

Omer Dursun — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:16:01 +0000

Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI, aims to develop transparent and accountable AI that understands the universe. The website says it collaborates with X Corp, Tesla, and other X Corp. companies. Read more...