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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.
Grok 4.6 Biosecurity Performance and Safeguards
xAI announced that Grok 4.6 outperforms all tested frontier models on LatchBio’s BioSecBench-Refusal benchmark, achieving over 50% refusal of hazardous tasks while maintaining routine biological utility.
xAI Grok Bot Access Expansion
xAI has expanded access to Grok Bot, integrating the AI agent tool into all SuperGrok and Cursor Pro and Teams plans with dedicated usage limits.
Grok 4.6 available on Microsoft Foundry
xAI has integrated Grok 4.6, its latest flagship model featuring a 500k context window and configurable reasoning, into Microsoft Foundry for enterprise deployment.
Grok 4.6 Integration with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
xAI has made Grok 4.6, its flagship model for long-running agents and visual work, available to developers on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform via Model Garden.
xAI Grok Build General Availability
xAI has expanded Grok Build to all users on web, iOS, and Android, enabling the live creation and publishing of apps, games, and dashboards from natural language descriptions.
Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock
xAI has made Grok 4.6, its flagship model featuring a 500k context window and configurable reasoning, generally available on Amazon Bedrock.
Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot
xAI has integrated Grok 4.6, its latest coding model, into GitHub Copilot, making it available for developers using VS Code and GitHub.
Grok 4.6 release notes / what's new
xAI has released Grok 4.6, a model optimized for long-running agents, complex coding, and visual work, matching GPT-5.6 Sol on the AA Intelligence Index.
xAI Grok Bot Release
xAI has launched Grok Bot, AI teammates capable of operating their own cloud computers to execute end-to-end tasks across various applications and tools without requiring APIs.
Imagine Image 2.0 release notes / what's new
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0, a high-fidelity image generation model featuring precise editing tools, professional typography, and top-tier performance in text-to-image and editing benchmarks.
Imagine Video 1.5 with References release notes
xAI has updated Imagine Video 1.5 to include text-to-video generation, native 1080p resolution, and image and voice reference capabilities for consistent character and scene generation.
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 Release Notes
xAI has released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, a next-generation voice model featuring improved intelligence, transcription accuracy, and conversational efficiency.
Grok 4.5 Integration in GitHub Copilot
xAI has integrated Grok 4.5, its most capable coding model, into GitHub Copilot, making it available across VSCode, the Copilot CLI, and cloud agents.
xAI Grok Build Mode Early Beta
xAI has introduced Build Mode, a new feature for Grok that allows users to create, preview, and publish functional websites, apps, games, and interactive dashboards directly from natural language descriptions.
Grok in Google Workspace
xAI has released a free add-on that integrates Grok into Google Sheets, Slides, and Docs to automate data analysis, presentation creation, and document drafting.
Grok Build Workflows Release
xAI has introduced Workflows in Grok Build, allowing users to orchestrate complex tasks by fanning them out across hundreds of parallel agents that verify results and report back in a single background run.
xAI Grok 4.5 Availability and Capabilities
xAI has deployed Grok 4.5 across iOS, Android, the web, and X, introducing improved reasoning efficiency, longer conversation tracking, and deep integration with Microsoft 365 apps.
Grok for Outlook Release
xAI has released Grok for Outlook, a Microsoft 365 add-in that enables users to summarize email threads, draft personalized replies, and organize their inboxes using AI.
Grok for Excel Release
xAI has released Grok for Excel, a free Microsoft 365 add-in that allows users to analyze data, write formulas, and run scenarios using plain English commands.
xAI Introduces Grok Automations
xAI has launched Automations in Grok, allowing users to schedule recurring AI tasks or trigger them via email filters, available on web and mobile platforms.
Grok 4.5 Release Notes
xAI has launched Grok 4.5, a high-performance model optimized for coding, agentic tasks, and office productivity with a serving speed of 80 TPS.
Grok Build Open Source Release
xAI has open-sourced Grok Build, a coding agent and terminal user interface (TUI) that supports local-first execution and an extensible extension system.
xAI Grok Voice Update: 21 New Flagship Voices
xAI has released 21 new multilingual flagship voices for Grok Voice, alongside improvements to the original five voices and the introduction of the Grok Voice Agent Builder.
xAI Voice Agent Builder Beta Release
xAI has launched the Voice Agent Builder in beta, a no-code platform for creating production-ready voice agents powered by Grok Voice.
Grok for Word Release Notes
xAI has released Grok for Word, a free Microsoft 365 add-in that enables users to generate structured documents, perform web and X research, and integrate data from external connectors.
Grok Models Now Available on Databricks Agent Bricks
xAI has integrated Grok models into the Databricks Agent Bricks platform, allowing enterprises to build AI agents that operate on Lakehouse data with governed access.
Grok 4.3 Release on Amazon Bedrock
xAI has made Grok 4.3 generally available on Amazon Bedrock, featuring a 1-million-token context window and the lowest hallucination rate among frontier models.
Grok for PowerPoint Release Notes
xAI has released Grok for PowerPoint, a free Microsoft 365 add-in that allows users to generate slide decks, research content, and apply styling using Grok's AI capabilities.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Release Notes
xAI has released Grok Imagine Video 1.5, an image-to-video model featuring improved motion, physics, and integrated audio generation with a faster generation speed.
Grok Build Agent Dashboard Release
xAI has introduced the Agent Dashboard in Grok Build, a centralized management interface that allows developers to monitor, dispatch, and interact with multiple parallel coding sessions simultaneously.
Grok Build Plugin Marketplace Release
xAI has launched the Grok Build Plugin Marketplace, a built-in catalog allowing developers to install and publish plugins that bundle skills, agents, and MCP servers into Grok Build.
xAI and eToro Integrate Real-Time X Market Sentiment into Tori AI Agent
eToro has integrated SpaceXAI models via API to power its AI agent, Tori, with real-time market sentiment and live signals from the X platform.
xAI and Gopuff Launch Go AI Shopping Assistant
Gopuff and xAI have launched Go, a multimodal AI shopping assistant powered by Grok text, audio, and image models to provide personalized, predictive shopping experiences.
xAI Grok Voice Integration with Vapi
xAI has partnered with Vapi to make Grok the default engine for Vapi's 12 core voices, providing enhanced naturalness and emotional range for over 2.5 million voice agents.
xAI Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview Release
xAI has released grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview, an image-to-video model that transforms single still images into cinematic videos up to 720p via the xAI API.
xAI Composer 2.5 Release
xAI has released Composer 2.5, a fast, state-of-the-art coding model integrated into Grok Build designed for long-running tasks and complex instruction following.
xAI Grok Build 0.1 API Release
xAI has released grok-build-0.1, a coding model optimized for agentic tasks such as web development and debugging, available via the xAI API in public beta.
Grok Integration in Kilo Code
xAI has integrated Grok models, including Grok Build, into the Kilo Code agentic engineering platform for users with X Premium+ or SuperGrok subscriptions.
xAI Grok Build Early Beta Release
xAI has launched Grok Build, a coding agent for professional software engineering designed for complex coding tasks through a plan-review-approve workflow and parallel subagent execution.
Grok Integration for OpenClaw
xAI has enabled Grok models for use within OpenClaw, an open-source, local-first personal assistant that integrates with multiple messaging platforms.
xAI Grok 4.3 Skills Release
xAI has launched Skills for Grok 4.3, enabling persistent expertise and the automated generation of production-ready office documents across web, iOS, and Android platforms.
xAI Grok Integration with Hermes Agent
xAI has enabled Grok subscription users to integrate their accounts directly into the Nous Research open-source Hermes Agent for persistent, self-improving AI autonomy.
Grok Imagine Quality Mode API Release
xAI has launched Quality Mode for the Grok Imagine API, providing enterprise developers with enhanced realism, improved multilingual text rendering, and superior creative control for image generation and editing.
xAI Grok Connectors Release
xAI has launched Connectors, deep integrations for Grok on web, iOS, and Android that allow the AI to read and write data across third-party applications like Google Workspace, GitHub, and Notion.
xAI and Anthropic Compute Partnership
xAI has partnered with Anthropic to provide access to the Colossus 1 supercomputer, with additional plans to explore orbital AI compute capacity.
xAI Custom Voices Release
xAI has introduced Custom Voices, allowing users to clone their own voice from a short recording for use across Grok Text to Speech and Voice Agent APIs.
xAI Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 Release
xAI has released grok-voice-think-fast-1.0, a flagship voice model designed for complex enterprise workflows, high-volume tool calling, and low-latency real-time reasoning.
xAI Grok Speech to Text and Text to Speech APIs
xAI has released standalone Grok Speech to Text (STT) and Text to Speech (TTS) APIs, providing high-accuracy transcription and expressive voice generation based on the technology powering Grok Voice and Tesla vehicles.
xAI Acquired by SpaceX
SpaceX has acquired xAI, integrating the AI lab into the aerospace company as announced on February 2, 2026.
xAI Grok Imagine API Release
xAI has launched the Grok Imagine API, a unified video-audio generative model designed for high-quality video generation and precise video editing with a focus on low latency and cost-efficiency.