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.
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25 verified stories covering xAI, 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 Team accounts need admin approval, and many details remain unpublished.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.
Anthropic, xAI, OpenAI All Falter in 90 Minutes; Google Fine
Anthropic, xAI and OpenAI all suffered outages within 90 minutes on the evening of September 3, while Google's Gemini and Vertex AI stayed fully operational throughout.
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.
xAI Fails to Halt AI Nudity Ban
A federal judge let Minnesota's first-of-its-kind AI nudification ban take effect, leaving xAI to fight the broader constitutional case later.
Grok Build is accused of uploading repository bundles beyond opened files
Grok Build is accused of uploading repository bundles beyond opened files. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
xAI faces lawsuit over unpermitted data-center turbines
xAI faces lawsuit over unpermitted data-center turbines. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
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.
SpaceX jumps 19% on debut and clears a test for AI IPOs
The record listing valued the merged SpaceX-xAI story as a capital-intensive AI infrastructure bet, setting a reference point for Anthropic and OpenAI.
SpaceX’s record IPO hides a Starlink-versus-xAI split
SpaceX’s record IPO hides a Starlink-versus-xAI split.
SpaceX prices giant IPO at $135 a share
SpaceX fixed its IPO at $135 a share for a planned $75 billion raise, tying rockets, Starlink and xAI compute into one market story.
xAI Co-Founder Igor Babuschkin Launches River AI, Targets $1B at $5B Valuation
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, is raising $1 billion for his new AI research startup River AI at a $5 billion valuation, with General Catalyst leading the round.
xAI, Google and Microsoft Join CAISI Model Reviews
The US government model review program now covers five major AI labs, turning pre-release safety checks into a de facto industry standard.
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.
xAI, Mistral and Cursor discuss an OpenAI counterweight
xAI, Mistral and Cursor discuss an OpenAI counterweight. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
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’s XChat privacy pitch runs into Grok questions
Musk’s XChat privacy pitch runs into Grok questions. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
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.