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April 10, 2011 - Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI announced its latest flagship model, Grok 3, on February 17, but only now has it launched its corresponding API interfaces, including a streamlined version, the Grok 3 Mini. Pricing for the series of products is benchmarked against Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet, with Grok 3 priced at $3 and $15 per million words (token) input/output, respectively, and an accelerated version priced at $5.... (token) input/output pricing is $3 and $15 per million words, respectively, with the accelerated version priced at $5...

April 2, 2011 - Elon Musk has said that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will build the world's largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee. Documents seen by Business Insider show that the company is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the project, but faces a large power deficit. Since the project was first announced in June 2024, xAI has submitted 14 applications for building permits to the Memphis Planning and Development Agency, with a total estimated cost of $405.9 million ($2.9...)

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has added image generation to its API. The API only supports the "grok-2-image-1212" model, which generates up to 10 images based on input descriptions, handles up to 5 requests per second, and produces output in JPG format, charging $0.07 per image (note: the current exchange rate is about $0.51 yuan). xAI partnered with AI startup Black Forest Labs last year to push the model on Musk's social media platform X...

On March 19th, a large number of users found that Grok secretly launched Deeper Search on March 18th, local time, which is able to perform the task of searching, organizing data and generating reports. In terms of functionality, Deeper Search is an upgraded version of the previous Deep Search, compared to the Deep Search can realize a "deeper" search function. Thanks to Musk's financial strength and the vast resources on X, its information is updated very quickly. Strangely enough, Musk, who has always been fond of marketing, has so far...

March 8 (Reuters) - Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has purchased an approximately 93,000-square-foot industrial site in Memphis, in the southwestern U.S. state of Tennessee, the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce said on Friday. The company is accelerating the expansion of its AI infrastructure as the industry becomes more competitive. The investment is a continuation of its expansion plans from last December. xAI announced at the time that it would be expanding its Colossus supercomputer locally, enabling it to house at least one million GPUs. Colossus is seen as an important addition to Musk's...

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- This week, an OpenAI employee publicly accused Elon Musk's xAI of releasing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. In response, xAI co-founder Igor Babushkin insisted the company did nothing wrong. On its blog, xAI posted a chart showing Grok 3's performance on AIME 2025, a set of difficult math problems from a recent invitational math exam. While some specialists ...

On February 18th, Elon Musk announced the launch of his Grok 3 intelligent search engine called Deepsearch at today's xAI live broadcast. As you can see from the official demo, when a user asks "when is the next starship launch?", Deepsearch can think about it and then look for web news, X-platform posts, etc. to analyze and summarize, and then give an answer. At present, Deepsearch DeepSeek, OpenAI ChatGPT, etc. have laid out AI search engine, which can analyze and give answers in real time through networking....

February 18, 2012 - At 12:00 p.m. Beijing time today, Musk's AI company xAI released its latest generation of big models, Grok 3. According to Musk, Grok 3 is "an order of magnitude" more capable than its predecessor, Grok 2, and is an AI that "strives for extreme realism," even if that realism is sometimes at odds with political correctness. It's an AI that "strives for the ultimate in realism," even if that realism sometimes runs counter to political correctness. Grok-3 outperforms DeepSeek-... in mathematical reasoning, scientific reasoning, and code writing in a number of benchmark tests.

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is seeking about $10 billion (note: currently about 72,654 million yuan) in financing, a round that is expected to value the company at $75 billion (currently about 544,904 million yuan), Bloomberg said today, citing people familiar with the matter. Existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Valor Equity Partners are in discussions to participate...

February 13, 2011 - At today's World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk disclosed via a video call that Grok 3 will be released in about one to two weeks and is currently in the final stages of preparation. As announced earlier this year, the Grok 3 model is expected to introduce a Chain Of Thought reasoning capability that will allow it to step through complex tasks in the same way that human cognitive processes do. Positioning itself as a competitor to industry leaders like OpenAI and Google, xAI has invested heavily in computational resources, using about 10 ...

In a blog post yesterday (January 30th), tech media testingcatalog reported that Elon Musk's AI company xAI is about to launch the Grok 3 model, which is expected to introduce a Chain Of Thought reasoning capability that will allow it to process complex tasks step-by-step in the same way that human cognitive processes do. xAI is positioning itself as an OpenAI company. Positioning itself as a competitor to industry leaders such as OpenAI and Google, xAI has invested heavily in computational resources, using around 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train...

On January 27th, technology media testingcatalog published a blog post today (January 27th), reporting that although xAI has not yet been officially announced, Grok-3 has briefly appeared on standalone platforms and X platforms to start internal testing, and is expected to be officially released next week. Test results show that Grok-3 performs well in answering questions, even outperforming models such as o1 and DeepSeek R1. All indications are that the official release of Grok-3 is just around the corner, and it may become the most advanced AI model to date. The media...

Elon Musk's xAI Grok chatbot recently got a new logo, and instead of the rumored design from last December, the new logo is a minimalist departure from the previous one and is identical to xAI's, underscoring the company's strategic intent to integrate its brand image. Musk said on social media that the previous strategy of having separate logos for xAI and Grok was "a mistake on his part". He said that the launch of Grok, which is aligned with xAI, was a "mistake" on his part...

January 16, 2011 - Elon Musk's xAI has launched a web-based version of its Grok AI chatbot, the latest addition to its iOS launch, meaning users don't need to visit X.com or even have an X account to experience Grok's features. 1AI visits the web address (grok.com), where users can simply provide their year of birth to get started, perform real-time information gathering, get answers to questions, and even produce images. The menu below the input box allows users to add attachments, support...

Last April, billionaire Elon Musk teased a mysterious "Unhinged Mode" for Grok, the AI chatbot on his social media platform, X. Nearly a year later, xAI, the development company behind Grok, has updated its FAQ page on its official website to further explain the capabilities of this new mode. 1AI notes that, according to the FAQ page, Grok will offer "potentially offensive, inappropriate, and even risky...

On December 24th, xAI, the generative artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, announced the completion of a $6 billion (currently about RMB 43.82 billion) Series C funding round. The round attracted participation from a number of leading investment firms and tech giants, including A16Z, BlackRock, Fidelity Management & Research, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, and Vy Capital, among others. Noteworthy...

Musk's AI company xAI is testing a standalone app for iOS that offers the chatbot Grok, which was previously only available to X users, according to a local TechCrunch report. Currently in beta in Australia and select countries, the app is capable of accessing data from the web and X in real time and offers a variety of generative AI features, including rewriting text, summarizing long passages, simple Q&A functionality, and generating images based on textual prompts. The app description mentions...

December 14, 2012 - Musk's xAI announced on December 13, local time that a new version of the Grok-2 model is being rolled out free of charge to all 𝕏 platform users. As always, Premium and Premium+ users will receive higher usage limits and will have priority access to any future new features. According to officials, Grok utilizes the 𝕏 platform for real-time insight into what's happening in the world. Recently, Grok introduced two additional features to further enhance this experience: web search and citations. Currently Grok utilizes the data from the 𝕏...

Musk's AI startup xAI has ordered $1.08 billion worth of GB200 AI servers from NVIDIA and has been given priority delivery, DigiTimes reports. NVIDIA is expected to start delivering the servers in January 2025, and they will be manufactured by Foxconn. Musk contacted NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang directly to discuss the order for xAI's GB200 servers, the report said. Prioritizing NVIDIA's AI servers will help xAI better achieve its goals. Jen-Hsun Huang ...

In a blog post today (Nov. 28), tech media outlet The Verge reported that Elon Musk's xAI is planning to launch a standalone app for its Grok chatbot in December in order to increase competition with OpenAI and attract more users. Competitors including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude have generally used a free strategy to attract more users, while ...

Chip giant Nvidia is in talks with Elon Musk about a potential investment in xAI, people familiar with the matter say, according to the New York Post. xAI is an AI company founded by Musk that has developed Grok, a large language model currently deployed on social media platform X. The company has also developed a large language model called Grok. Although Grok launched later than competitors such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, it has grown and evolved very quickly. While NVIDIA has yet to comment on a potential investment in xAI, its CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been very supportive...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has officially released its application programming interface (API), which allows developers to integrate Grok into other applications. Musk made the announcement on Monday, posting a link to the interface on the xAI website. Previously, Musk had confirmed plans to provide an API for Grok in August and open-sourced the software's weights in March. To view and use the API, users must log into their xAI account and select "Request Ac...

We recently got a glimpse of the $1 billion AI GPU when Elon Musk shared a short video presentation of Cortex, X's AI training supercomputer currently being built at Tesla's Giga factory in Texas. Musk announced on his social media platforms that Colossus, the new 100k H100 training cluster, is now up and running. Musk claims Colossus is "the world's most powerful AI training...

Musk's xAI company discussed a deal to share future Tesla revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal. Under the proposed agreement, Tesla would receive a license to xAI models. Under a proposed arrangement described to investors, Tesla would license xAI models to help develop a "fully self-driving" (FSD) system and share a portion of revenues with the startup, according to people familiar with the matter. xAI would help develop other features for Tesla, including a Siri-like voice assistant for its electric cars and an Optimus for its humanoid robot. Siri-like voice assistants in Tesla's electric cars, as well as a humanoid robot, Optimus...