xAI Launches Standalone Grok App
Until recently, Grok was exclusively available to X (formerly Twitter) users.
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Elon Musk’s xAI Secures Another $6 Billion
The $6 billion raise involved 97 investors, with a minimum stake of $77,593.
Inside Elon Musk's Colossus: xAI's World-Leading AI Supercomputer
ServeTheHome got exclusive access to film the Colossus facility, providing a rare inside look at the world's largest AI supercomputer.
xAI Opens API Access to Grok, Built From Scratch in Just 4 Months
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.
xAI Launches Grok-2 Models with Image Generation Capabilities
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.
Musk’s xAI Calls off $10 Billion Oracle Server Deal
Musk confirmed the decision in a post on X explaining that xAI's "fundamental competitiveness depends on being faster than any other AI company."
Elon Musk's xAI Secures $6B in Series B Funding, Valuing the Company at $24B
The fresh capital will help xAI bring its first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate research and development for future technologies.
X Introduces AI-Powered News Summaries with Grok
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.
Elon Musk's xAI Nears $6 Billion Funding Round Led by Sequoia Capital
The latest funding round demonstrates investors' willingness to spread their bets among competitors in the AI sector, where valuations have skyrocketed.
x.AI Unveils it's First Multimodal model, Grok-1.5 Vision
It excels in multi-disciplinary reasoning and understanding spatial relationships in the physical world, outperforming its peers on x.AI's new RealWorldQA benchmark.
Tesla Increasing Salaries Amid Fierce AI Talent Competition
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.
X.ai Announces Grok 1.5 with Improved Reasoning and Longer Context
Under the hood, Grok-1.5 is powered by a custom distributed training framework built on JAX, Rust, and Kubernetes.
Elon Musk's xAI Open-Sources Grok-1
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.
X's AI Chatbot Grok Now Available to All Premium+ Subscribers in the US
A major competitive advantage of Grok is the ability to have access to both real-time and historical tweets.
Elon Musk Is Raising $1 Billion for AI Startup xAI
As per filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, xAI has already garnered about $135 million from undisclosed investors.
xAI Launches PromptIDE for Advanced AI Prompt Engineering with Grok
At the core of PromptIDE is a Python code editor and SDK that facilitates implementing complex prompting techniques.
Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok, an AI Assistant with a "Rebellious Streak"
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.
A First Look at Grok, Elon Musk's Mysterious New Chatbot from xAI
Grok’s capabilities, real-world performance, and implications for AI ethics and safety won’t be fully clear until it is widely tested.