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xAI Upgrades Grok with Personalized Memory and Custom Workspaces

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Chris McKay• April 17, 2025 • 2 min read

xAI has added memory functionality and workspaces to its Grok chatbot, allowing for conversation recall and better organization as the company works to close the feature gap with established AI assistants.

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xAI Launches Grok Studio, a Collaborative Workspace for Docs and Code

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Chris McKay• April 16, 2025 • 2 min read

xAI has launched Grok Studio, a new collaborative workspace that lets users create and edit documents, code, and browser games alongside its AI assistant, while adding Google Drive integration and code execution capabilities.

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Musk Combines xAI and X in Mega Merger Valued Over $110 Billion

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Chris McKay• March 28, 2025 • 2 min read

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has acquired his social media platform X, valuing the combined company at over $110 billion.

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Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok 3, Claims State-of-the-Art Performance

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Chris McKay• February 18, 2025 • 2 min read

Grok 3 outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini in early benchmarks, and comes with new features like DeepSearch and voice mode.

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Elon Musk’s xAI Eyes $10B in New Funding at $75B Valuation

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Chris McKay• February 14, 2025 • 2 min read

xAI is in talks to raise $10 billion in funding, which would push its valuation to around $75 billion, with existing investors like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Valor Equity Partners considering participation.

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Elon Musk Bids $97.4B for OpenAI

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Chris McKay• February 10, 2025 • 2 min read

Altman dismissed the bid outright, taking a jab at Musk on X, formerly Twitter, saying, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”

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xAI Launches Standalone Grok App

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Chris McKay• January 9, 2025 • 2 min read

Until recently, Grok was exclusively available to X (formerly Twitter) users.

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Elon Musk’s xAI Secures Another $6 Billion

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Chris McKay• December 5, 2024 • 2 min read

The $6 billion raise involved 97 investors, with a minimum stake of $77,593.

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Inside Elon Musk's Colossus: xAI's World-Leading AI Supercomputer

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Chris McKay• October 29, 2024 • 3 min read

ServeTheHome got exclusive access to film the Colossus facility, providing a rare inside look at the world's largest AI supercomputer.

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xAI Opens API Access to Grok, Built From Scratch in Just 4 Months

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Chris McKay• October 21, 2024 • 3 min read

Grok is the only AI built on top of the real-time social media platform. This means that Grok is continuously fed up-to-the-moment information directly from X, providing access to live conversations, trending topics, and up-to-the-moment information about people and events as they unfold on X.

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xAI Launches Grok-2 Models with Image Generation Capabilities

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Chris McKay• August 14, 2024 • 3 min read

An early version of the model was privately tested on the LMSYS chatbot arena and secured the third position overall, excelling particularly in coding, hard prompts, and math tasks.

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Musk’s xAI Calls off $10 Billion Oracle Server Deal

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Chris McKay• July 9, 2024 • 2 min read

Musk confirmed the decision in a post on X explaining that xAI's "fundamental competitiveness depends on being faster than any other AI company."

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Elon Musk's xAI Secures $6B in Series B Funding, Valuing the Company at $24B

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Chris McKay• May 27, 2024 • 1 min read

The fresh capital will help xAI bring its first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate research and development for future technologies.

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X Introduces AI-Powered News Summaries with Grok

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Chris McKay• May 3, 2024 • 3 min read

If executed properly, Grok could become a valuable entry point for discovering news stories that might otherwise go unnoticed. After all, news and commentary are what drew many users to the X platform in the first place.

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Elon Musk's xAI Nears $6 Billion Funding Round Led by Sequoia Capital

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Chris McKay• April 26, 2024 • 2 min read

The latest funding round demonstrates investors' willingness to spread their bets among competitors in the AI sector, where valuations have skyrocketed.

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x.AI Unveils it's First Multimodal model, Grok-1.5 Vision

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Chris McKay• April 12, 2024 • 2 min read

It excels in multi-disciplinary reasoning and understanding spatial relationships in the physical world, outperforming its peers on x.AI's new RealWorldQA benchmark.

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Tesla Increasing Salaries Amid Fierce AI Talent Competition

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Chris McKay• April 4, 2024 • 2 min read

As the AI arms race heats up, companies are reallocating resources and investing heavily in AI development, even as layoffs continue in other areas of the tech industry.

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X.ai Announces Grok 1.5 with Improved Reasoning and Longer Context

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Chris McKay• March 28, 2024 • 2 min read

Under the hood, Grok-1.5 is powered by a custom distributed training framework built on JAX, Rust, and Kubernetes.

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Elon Musk's xAI Open-Sources Grok-1

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Chris McKay• March 17, 2024 • 2 min read

While this is certainly a direct jab at OpenAI, it will be interesting to see how the AI community responds to this release and how it influences the ongoing debate around the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.

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X's AI Chatbot Grok Now Available to All Premium+ Subscribers in the US

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Chris McKay• December 8, 2023 • 2 min read

A major competitive advantage of Grok is the ability to have access to both real-time and historical tweets.

xAI Venture Capital Startups

Elon Musk Is Raising $1 Billion for AI Startup xAI

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Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 2 min read

As per filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, xAI has already garnered about $135 million from undisclosed investors.

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xAI Launches PromptIDE for Advanced AI Prompt Engineering with Grok

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Chris McKay• November 6, 2023 • 1 min read

At the core of PromptIDE is a Python code editor and SDK that facilitates implementing complex prompting techniques.

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Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok, an AI Assistant with a "Rebellious Streak"

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Chris McKay• November 5, 2023 • 4 min read

Grok is initially being offered via a waitlist to select users in the United States. Wider release plans are unclear. But xAI has an "exciting roadmap" to roll out new features in coming months as user feedback helps refine Grok's capabilities.

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A First Look at Grok, Elon Musk's Mysterious New Chatbot from xAI

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Chris McKay• November 4, 2023 • 3 min read

Grok’s capabilities, real-world performance, and implications for AI ethics and safety won’t be fully clear until it is widely tested.