xAI shipped Grok Voice 3.0 on the Voice Agent API at an unchanged $0.08 per minute, with sub-second first audio and automatic migration for anyone on grok-voice-latest. It took first place on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index at 86.9, ahead of GPT-Live-1 and Gemini 3.8 Live.
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Elon Musk replied "Maybe we should start a competitor to Amazon" after an X user reported that Grok bots could no longer place orders. Amazon has issued no statement about Grok at all — the only on-record Amazon language is the error message from its September block of Meta's Muse agent.
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Elon Musk posted on 9 October that Grok Bots will manage Grokipedia, the AI-written encyclopedia that already logs more than 2,200 edits a day and passed 1.19 million approved edits. He gave no timeline and did not say what changes.
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SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.7 on 21 September at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output. It scores 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0 and 71.0% on DeepSWE v1.1, but 19.6% on the Harvey legal benchmark and 38.0% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. The price is the headline. The benchmark spread is the story.
🔥 TrendingLarge Language Models22 Sep 20266 min read
Grok 4.7 landed at $2 in and $6 out with a benchmark spread worth reading closely. ZCode was found uploading entire Git histories by default. And Harvey, valued at $15.6B, moved off OpenAI and Anthropic onto a post-trained Kimi K3 after gross margins hit minus 50 percent.
🔥 TrendingAI News22 Sep 20266 min read
X and SpaceXAI moved to drop Apple from the ChatGPT antitrust case with prejudice and disclosed no terms. Judge Mark Pittman has ordered them to hand over any agreement with Apple for private review by noon today. The case against OpenAI continues.
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Grok 4.8 is a 2.5 trillion parameter model on a new C++ stack, finishing training this week. Grok 4.9 targets Astra or Fable class. Grok 5 is where Musk expects AGI. Grok 4.7, due on 12 September, has not shipped — and none of the four appears in any xAI document.
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Musk benchmarked every unreleased Grok against a model that already shipped — 4.7 against Opus 5.0, 4.9 against Astra or Fable. That makes the ladder easy to read: for each claimed level, something equivalent is already available. Here is what, and what it costs.
News14 Sep 20267 min read
Microsoft added xAI models to Copilot across Office and GitHub, announced by Nadella with Musk confirming. Admin-enabled for Frontier customers, and excluded from the EU, EFTA and UK during preview. Microsoft now ships OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI models inside the same interface.
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Six consumer tiers across two parallel subscription paths, and the tier names do not map cleanly to model versions. The two most common mistakes are paying $40 for X Premium+ without using X, and jumping from $30 to $300 without noticing the $100 tier in between.
Large Language Models25 Aug 20267 min read
Grok 4.6 shipped August 12 with a 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 500K context, and a pricing trap above 200K tokens. Grok 4.7 has finished pre-training, has no model ID, no price, no context window and no benchmark, and it just slipped because xAI is feeding it SpaceX engineering data. Here is the answer for teams making a decision this week.
Large Language Models17 Aug 20269 min read
xAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026. It matches GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (61 each) — one point below Claude Fable 5 Max (62) — at the same $2/$6/M price as Grok 4.5. Context window expanded to 500K tokens. Primary improvements: long-running agent performance, agentic self-verification, and CursorBench v3.2 (69.9% vs 66.7% for 4.5). Key caveat: pricing doubles to $4/$12/M for any request with a prompt over 200K tokens — the entire request is repriced at the long-context rate. Grok 4.7 (2.1T architecture) expected within weeks.
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Tomorrow, August 5, 2026, grok-voice-latest automatically switches from Think Fast 1.0 to Think Fast 2.0. No action needed to upgrade. To stay on v1.0, pin grok-voice-think-fast-1.0 in your API calls before August 5. The price changes from $0.05/min to $0.08/min — a 60% increase that happens silently for any team using the grok-voice-latest alias without pinning. Independent benchmarks: Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Quality Index 82.9% (up from 75.7%), ahead of GPT-Realtime-2.1 at 79.1% and Gemini 3.1 Flash at 69.5%.
Voice & Audio04 Aug 20265 min read
There is no single feature called "Grok Unlimited Mode." What people search for is SuperGrok Heavy — the $300/month tier that offers near-unlimited messages, images, video, Voice Mode, DeepSearch, and Think Mode, plus exclusive access to Grok 4 Heavy. Free Grok caps at ~10 prompts. SuperGrok Standard (~$30/month) caps at ~100 messages per day. SuperGrok Heavy removes most hard caps — but soft limits still apply via fair-use enforcement. All limits reset at midnight UTC.
General02 Aug 20265 min read
A new SuperGrok Plus tier is appearing in recent Grok app versions for some users, priced at $1,000 per year. Based on reports from X users, it sits between SuperGrok ($30/mo) and SuperGrok Heavy ($300/mo), adding much higher weekly limits for chat, image and video generation, voice, and coding tools, plus fast replies, priority access, one-prompt app creation with web deployment, and early feature access. As of July 31, 2026, xAI has not published official pricing or a public announcement. The rollout appears gradual — not all users see it yet. Key missing information: exact numeric limits for each feature category.
🔥 TrendingLarge Language Models31 Jul 20268 min read
SpaceXAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29, 2026. Pricing: $0.08/min of audio — up from $0.05/min for version 1.0. First audio response in 0.70 seconds. Transcription 1.4× better than Think Fast 1.0 and 1.5-2× better than leading transcription models. 10× better transcription in noisy settings. 60% fewer reasoning tokens than v1.0. Tool calls begin before the first sentence ends. Available now via the xAI API and Voice Agent Builder. On August 5, grok-voice-latest auto-migrates to 2.0. Pin grok-voice-think-fast-1.0 before then to stay on v1.0. SpaceX tested the model on Starlink customer calls, reporting improved sales conversion and support containment.
🔥 TrendingVoice & Audio30 Jul 20266 min read
Vercel's DeepsecBench tested AI models on spotting real cybersecurity flaws in open-source code. GPT-5.6 Sol led on raw accuracy at 35.58 score but cost $56 per run. Grok 4.5 scored 15.58 to 16.54 — matching Kimi K3's level — for only $5.60 to $11 per run. Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch called Grok 4.5 the top price-performance pick. The benchmark tests real vulnerability detection in open-source code, not synthetic challenges. Key caveat: Artificial Analysis found Grok 4.5's hallucination rate doubled from 25% to 54% vs Grok 4.3.
🔥 TrendingLarge Language Models28 Jul 20266 min read
Bloomberg reported that Musk has restructured xAI ahead of the SpaceX IPO, turning to loyalists to manage engineering. Michael Nicolls, a longtime Starlink exec now serving as xAI President, has the bulk of engineering reporting to him. Sources describe "internal chaos" as Grok targets Claude parity. Separately, WSJ reported that AI executives are bolstering personal security as backlash intensifies — Liferaft tracked a 7× increase in digital threats against AI executives and data centers from late February to May 2026, including a Molotov attack on Sam Altman's San Francisco home in April.
News27 Jul 20265 min read
Elon Musk predicted that xAI's Grok Imagine tool will produce a full-length, historically accurate movie adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey before the end of 2026. The announcement followed artist Heavy Pulp's three-minute clip of Odysseus and Calypso — generated using advanced prompts and Grok's Aurora model for motion, lighting, and audio. Current Grok Imagine clips max out at 15 seconds. Scaling to feature-film length would require major breakthroughs in narrative consistency.
Image AI22 Jul 20265 min read
AI safety researcher Cereblab found that Grok Build, SpaceXAI's command-line coding agent, was uploading entire user repositories — including full Git histories, SSH keys, and password manager databases — to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, even when explicitly instructed not to open files. Elon Musk responded on X vowing a data purge. SpaceXAI has not confirmed what data was collected, how long the behaviour had been occurring, or whether the data was accessed by anyone at SpaceX.
Large Language Models19 Jul 20265 min read