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x.ai- Company type
- Private company
- Number of employees
- 1,000–5,500
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Latest news about xAI
In short: xAI released major Grok updates and entered a merger with SpaceX, while facing legal challenges over deepfakes and data center environmental impact.
Company announcements
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xAI launches Grok Imagine Quality Mode API
It offers higher realism, stronger text rendering, and better creative control for enterprise developers. Features photorealistic image generation, editing, and top leaderboard rankings.
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xAI launches Connectors on Grok Web
Connectors integrate apps like SharePoint, Outlook, Google Workspace into Grok for seamless workflows including reading, editing, and updating. Available now on web.
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xAI signs compute partnership with Anthropic
xAI provides access to Colossus 1 supercomputer with over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Anthropic will improve Claude Pro and Max capacity. They explore gigawatts of orbital AI compute.
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xAI launches Grok 4.3 on API
It tops leaderboards in agentic tool calling and instruction following. Supports 1M token context. Priced at $1.25/m input, $2.50/m output.
Media coverage
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‘No one triggered my evil detector’: Musk’s XAI strikes shocking deal with rival Anthropic
Elon Musk's SpaceX has announced that it has signed a deal with Anthropic to facilitate access to XAI's massive hardware to increase the computing capability...
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Google, xAI, and Microsoft agree to government screening before releasing updated AI models
According to CNN, Google, Microsoft, and xAI will give federal officials access to unreleased AI...
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Musk-owned xAI sued over AI-produced explicit content of Johnson City students
Three alleged victims of a high school student accused of using AI to make explicit photos and videos of multiple classmates using innocent photos of...
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A Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: They re going to make it look like suicide
The BBC has a substantial new investigation into people who have been deceived by various AI LLM...
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