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The labs
No more opening a dozen official blogs every morning. First-hand releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and the rest, each with its substance pulled out.
xAI Raises $20B Series E Funding Round
xAI announced a $20 billion Series E round, exceeding its $15 billion target, to accelerate its massive AI compute infrastructure and product rollout.
xAI Launches Grok Business and Grok Enterprise
xAI has introduced Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, providing organizations with secure, permission-aware AI assistants that do not train on customer data.
xAI Selected by US Department of War for Enterprise AI and Mission Systems
xAI has been selected by the U.S. Department of War (DOW) to integrate its Frontier AI systems and Grok models into the GenAI.Mil suite, providing AI capabilities to 3 million military and civilian employees at Impact Level 5.
xAI Grok Collections API Release
xAI has launched the Collections API, a managed knowledge base service that enables developers to build RAG applications by uploading datasets for precise semantic, keyword, and hybrid search.
xAI Grok Voice Agent API Release
xAI has launched the Grok Voice Agent API, a high-speed, multilingual voice agent system that ranks #1 on Big Bench Audio and costs $0.05 per minute.
xAI and El Salvador Nationwide AI Education Program
xAI and the Government of El Salvador have partnered to deploy Grok across 5,000 public schools to provide personalized AI tutoring to over one million students over the next two years.
xAI and HUMAIN Partnership for Grok Deployment in Saudi Arabia
xAI has entered a framework agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN to build hyperscale GPU data centers and deploy Grok nationwide across the Kingdom.
xAI Grok 4.1 Fast and Agent Tools API Release
xAI has launched Grok 4.1 Fast, a tool-calling model with a 2M context window, and the Agent Tools API to enable autonomous agents with real-time X data and code execution.
xAI Grok 4.1 Release Notes
xAI has released Grok 4.1, a model optimized for emotional intelligence, creative writing, and reduced hallucinations, which currently holds the top position on the LMArena Text Leaderboard.
xAI expands government access via GSA OneGov initiative
xAI is making its frontier reasoning models, including Grok 4 and Grok 4 fast, available to all US federal government departments and agencies for $0.42 over the next 18 months as part of the GSA OneGov initiative.
Grok 4 Fast release notes / what's new
xAI has released Grok 4 Fast, a cost-efficient reasoning model featuring a 2M token context window and a unified architecture for reasoning and non-reasoning modes.
Grok Code Fast 1 release notes / what's new
xAI has released grok-code-fast-1, a new model architecture optimized for speed, cost-efficiency, and agentic coding workflows across multiple programming languages.
xAI for Government Announcement
xAI has launched xAI for Government, providing the Grok family of products, including Grok 4, to US federal, local, state, and national security customers.
xAI Grok 4 Release Notes
xAI has released Grok 4, a model featuring scaled reinforcement learning, native tool use, and a high-performance 'Heavy' variant that achieves state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI V2 and Humanity's Last Exam.
Grok 3 Beta release notes / what's new
xAI has unveiled Grok 3 Beta, a new model family featuring advanced reasoning capabilities and the DeepSearch agent, trained on the Colossus supercluster with 10x the compute of previous SOTA models.
xAI raises $6B Series C funding round
xAI announced a $6 billion Series C round led by top investors, funding its rapid expansion of the Colossus supercomputer, new models like Grok 2, and upcoming products such as Grok 3.
xAI Grok-2 Update December 2024 Release Notes
xAI has released an updated version of Grok-2 that is three times faster with improved accuracy and is now available for free to all X users.
Grok Image Generation Release
xAI has released Aurora, an autoregressive mixture-of-experts image generation model for Grok that supports photorealistic rendering, precise text following, and multimodal image editing.
xAI API Public Beta Release
xAI has launched a public beta of its API, providing developers programmatic access to the Grok series of foundation models, starting with the grok-beta model.
Grok-2 Beta Release
xAI has released Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta, featuring frontier-level capabilities in chat, coding, and reasoning that outperform Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo on the LMSYS leaderboard.
xAI Series B Funding Round
xAI has raised $6 billion in Series B funding to accelerate the development of advanced AI systems and build necessary infrastructure to bring its products to market.
xAI Grok-1 Open Release
xAI has released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license.
xAI PromptIDE Announcement
xAI has released PromptIDE, an integrated development environment and SDK designed to accelerate prompt engineering and interpretability research for the Grok-1 model.
xAI Grok Release Notes
xAI has announced Grok, an AI assistant powered by the Grok-1 LLM that features real-time world knowledge via the X platform and a personality modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.