xAI bundles Grok and Cursor into a $30 plan
xAI's new X Subscription folds Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium into five monthly tiers from $0 to $200, with the $30 tier bundling three products.
Grok News and Analysis
15 verified stories covering Grok, product updates and industry developments.
Grok Bot Gets Its Own Email Inbox
xAI's Grok Bot began assigning users dedicated mail.grokbot.com inboxes on October 9. Team accounts need admin approval, and many details remain unpublished.
Musk: Grok Bot Will Route Tasks to Claude Opus 5.5
Elon Musk says Grok Bot will send tasks to Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, but routing, billing and model-disclosure details remain unexplained.
Grok 4.7 price unchanged, but token use per task doubles
Grok 4.7 keeps the same API price as 4.6, but per-task output tokens have roughly doubled, pushing real usage costs well above the sticker price.
xAI faces class action over Grok's training-data policy
A proposed class action accuses xAI of failing to screen illegal imagery from Grok's training data, targeting its default training-data policy.
Grok 4.5 targets coding seats with low prices
Grok 4.5 targets coding seats with low prices. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Grok Build gets a command center for coding agents
xAI added an Agent Dashboard to Grok Build, lowering access from the $300 SuperGrok Heavy tier to cheaper plans and joining the race to manage many coding agents at once.
Grok's new voice model beats Gemini by 30 percentage points on benchmark
xAI's grok-voice-think-fast-1.0 scored 67.3% on the τ-voice Bench, leaving Gemini 3.1 Flash Live at 43.8%, and is already handling real customer service calls for Starlink.
SpaceX IPO Filing Discloses xAI Regulatory Risks Over Grok Content
SpaceX's S-1 filing reveals that Grok, xAI's chatbot, faces regulatory probes in the EU and Americas over alleged non-consensual explicit content, including material involving minors, posing a material risk to the $1.75 trillion IPO.
xAI launches Grok audio API with low error rates
xAI launches Grok audio API with low error rates. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
Grok 4.3 Beta Launches: TTS 90% Cheaper Than Competitors
xAI released Grok 4.3 Beta on April 17, adding native video analysis, document generation, and developer voice APIs priced 86-92% below rivals. The $300/month tier still lacks conversation memory.
Grok Computer enters private beta, controls any software by reading pixels
xAI has quietly opened private beta access to Grok Computer for some SuperGrok users. The tool analyzes on-screen video to visually understand and control any application without relying on APIs.
Musk Merges SpaceX and xAI, Files for $1.75 Trillion IPO
Elon Musk combined SpaceX and xAI into a $1.25 trillion entity in February, then filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on April 1 targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation, aiming to raise $40-80 billion in what would be the largest IPO in history.
Grok 4.20 slashes hallucination rate from 12% to 4.2% using multi-agent debate
xAI's Grok 4.20 runs four specialized agents on a single 3-trillion-parameter MoE backbone, cutting hallucinations by 65% while achieving 220.5 tokens/sec and a 2-million-token context window.
SpaceX Reportedly Acquiring xAI for $250 Billion; Grok 4 Benchmarks Impress
Elon Musk’s xAI is at the center of two major stories: the release of Grok 4 with strong benchmark results, and reports that SpaceX is in talks to acquire the AI company for roughly $250 billion.