Tag: xai
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Musk Wants to Double xAI’s Chip Count by December
Elon Musk just gave the most detailed timeline yet for how big xAI’s Colossus 2 site outside Memphis is about to get, and the numbers are hard to picture. Right now the cluster runs around 550,000 Nvidia chips, a mix of GB200s and the newer GB300s. Musk says another 220,000 GB300s go live next week,…
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Grok 4.7 Was Supposed to Ship Days Ago. It Did Not
Elon Musk said Grok 4.7 would land by September 12. That date came and went. Nothing shipped. On September 11, Musk posted on X that the model needs a few more days to cook. His words were that the team may have penalized response length too aggressively during training, so the model gives up on…
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xAI Just Gave Grok Its Own Computer to Work With
xAI just gave Grok something it never had before, its own computer. The company opened a public beta for something called Grok Bot. This is not a plain chat window anymore. Each bot runs on its own cloud machine, logs into the apps and tools you already use, and works a job start to finish…
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Grok’s New Image Model Just Leapfrogged the Field
xAI shipped a new version of its image tool, Grok Imagine Image 2.0, putting it on grok.com, the iOS app, and the Android app all at once. It became the default Quality Mode on August 7, no beta wall, no waitlist. The headline feature is precision. There is a region tool, point at a spot…
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xAI Just Shipped Grok 4.6, and 4.7 Is Weeks Away
xAI shipped Grok 4.6 today, and if you are keeping track, that is the second major Grok release in about six weeks. Grok 4.5 had barely finished rolling out before Elon Musk was already promising the next one, and here it is, right on schedule. Grok 4.6 runs on the same 1.5 trillion parameter foundation…
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xAI’s New Voice Model Just Beat OpenAI and Google
xAI put out a new version of its voice assistant model, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, and the jump from version one is bigger than most model updates get. On the independent Artificial Analysis benchmark, it scored 82.9 percent on the Speech to Speech Index, up from 75.7 for the first version, and ahead of…
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Elon Musk’s xAI Just Sued Minnesota Over A New Law
Minnesota passed a law this year banning nudification apps, the kind that use AI to strip clothes off photos of real people without consent. It is set to take effect on August 1st. xAI just sued to stop it. The company argues the law is written so broadly that it violates the First Amendment, calling…
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Grok Just Quietly Moved Into Google’s Office Suite
Grok just showed up inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. One install from the Workspace Marketplace and it’s sitting right there in tools millions of people already open every single day, no separate app, no new login to remember. In Sheets, it acts like an analyst who actually cites its own work. Ask it a…
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Grok Just Revealed Its Next Move
Elon Musk confirmed Grok 4.6 on July 18. It is a two-trillion-parameter frontier model, coming after Grok 4.5, which launched just two days earlier. Let me put that timeline in perspective. GPT-5.6 took months of government review before launch. Anthropic dropped Fable 5 with months between announcement and release. Grok 4.5 launched on July 16,…
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Grok 4.5 Is Here, and It’s Trading Blows with Claude Opus
Elon Musk just announced Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla. New foundation model underneath it, 1.5 trillion parameters, fed with Cursor training data. The early reports say it is performing at or above Claude Opus level on hard reasoning tasks. This is not a small update. This is a new architecture,…