# xAI

[https://timesof.ai/platform/xai](https://timesof.ai/platform/xai)

xAI develops advanced AI systems with a focus on understanding the universe and building maximally truthful systems.

xAI focuses on building AI that advances scientific discovery.

## Coverage

- [Musk Says Grok Bot Will Route Tasks to Rival Models, Including Claude](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/xai-grok-bot-routes-to-claude) — Musk says xAI's Grok Bot will pick the best back-end model per task, naming Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. Direction, not a deal.
- [SpaceX In Early Talks for ~$40B Debt, Led by Apollo, to Buy Nvidia Chips](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/spacex-40b-debt-nvidia-chips-apollo) — FT and Bloomberg: SpaceX in early talks to borrow ~$40B for Nvidia chips, Apollo leading. Early stage; may not close. Borrower is SpaceX.
- [NYC Council Puts Labs Under Oath — No Catastrophic-Risk Number, No Release-Gate Promise; xAI Skips Subpoena](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/nyc-council-ai-hearing-labs-under-oath) — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta under oath at NYC Council: no catastrophic-risk number, no release-gate vow. xAI skipped a subpoena. Bills are still proposals.
- [Trump and Frontier CEOs Sign a Voluntary ‘Morally Binding’ Accord — No Legal Force](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/white-house-frontier-responsibilities-accord) — Trump and frontier CEOs signed a voluntary Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities: four-layer self-audits, no legal force, company-chosen auditors.
- [Grok 4.7 Holds Grok 4.6 Prices and Moves the Specialty Benches](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/xai-grok-4-7) — Grok 4.7 holds Grok 4.6 prices at $2/$6. Lab leads EEBench and Harvey legal; Andon Vending-Bench puts it behind Sol, ahead of Opus 5.5.
- [Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 Cuts Short-Phrase Errors; Price Stays Put](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/xai-grok-voice-transcribe-2) — Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 cuts short-phrase WER from 20.6% to 6.8% at unchanged prices. Default API slug flips; AA streaming rank is lab-cited.
- [Amodei Asks for Inspectors in the Building — Altman and Musk Say They Agree](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/amodei-pace-the-frontier) — Amodei commits Anthropic to embedded METR-class evaluators. Altman says OpenAI will do the same; Musk agrees. Pacing is not a training halt.
- [Grok Bot Goes Enterprise With Two Weeks of Seat-Free Invites](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/spacexai-grok-bot-enterprise) — xAI’s Grok Bot for Enterprise ships with access/network/audit controls and two weeks free for Grok and Cursor Enterprise orgs, including non-seat invites.
- [Grok Bot Connects to X — Free API Credits Turn a Cloud Computer Into a Distribution Agent](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-bot-x-connector) — xAI connected Grok Bot to X with free API credits for paid Bot users — search, timelines, mentions, trends.
- [OpenAI Unbundles Cursor After SpaceX’s $60B Close — Nov 12 Cutoff](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/openai-cursor-spacex-acquisition-cutoff) — OpenAI will stop serving Cursor after SpaceX buys Anysphere — proposed Nov 12 cutoff. ~5% of Cursor traffic; Anthropic says Claude will fill the gap.
- [Grok 4.6 Completes the Big-Three Cloud Map on Microsoft Foundry](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-microsoft-foundry) — Grok 4.6 lands on Microsoft Foundry in public preview at $2/$6 per million tokens — AWS, Google, and Microsoft inside two weeks.
- [xAI Takes Vera CPUs for Agents — and Plans a Vera Rubin Rack in Orbit](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-nvidia-vera-cpu-starmind) — xAI will deploy Vera CPUs for Grok agents and fly an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 as Starmind — Nvidia primary; Starmind planned, not launched.
- [Grok Bot on Plus and Cursor Pro+ — Persistent Teammates as Default Coding Extra](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-bot-more-plans) — Grok Bot now included with SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and all Cursor Teams plans — Enterprise still waitlisted.
- [Grok 4.6 Hits Google’s Agent Garden Two Days After Bedrock](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-google-enterprise) — Grok 4.6 lands on Google Enterprise Agent Platform Model Garden at $2/$6 per million tokens — AWS and Google within a week of 4.6.
- [Grok Build Opens to Every Plan — Consumer Creation Surface, Not a Heavy Demo](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-build-web-mobile) — xAI made Grok Build available on every plan on web, iOS, and Android, with grok.me publish and remix — Free through Heavy.
- [Grok 4.6 on Bedrock a Week After Launch — Cloud as Same-Week Entitlement](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock) — xAI put Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock at $2/$6 per million tokens with a 500k context window — one week after the flagship launch.
- [Guidelight Grades Frontier Labs on Control — Nobody Above a C+](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/guidelight-frontier-lab-control-assessment) — Guidelight graded five frontier labs on rogue-model control. Anthropic and OpenAI tied at C+; Meta scored F. Nobody above 3/5 on any practice.
- [Grok 4.6 in Copilot Two Days After Launch — the Picker That Moves Tokens](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-github-copilot) — xAI put Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot for VS Code, cloud agents, and the Copilot CLI — two days after the August 12 model GA.
- [Grok 4.6 Ties Sol on Artificial Analysis at $2/$6 — Without Owning DeepSWE](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6) — Grok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol at 61 on Artificial Analysis at $2/$6 per million tokens — price-agent step; DeepSWE still trails.
- [Grok Bot Puts a Cloud Computer Behind the Teammate — Not a New Base Model](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-bot-beta) — xAI opened Grok Bot early beta — persistent AI teammates with a cloud computer, on SuperGrok Heavy and Cursor Ultra/Teams Premium.
- [Imagine Video 1.5 Multi-Ref and 1080p: Character Consistency Becomes the Product](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/spacexai-imagine-video-1-5-references) — xAI shipped Imagine Video 1.5 with multi-ref conditioning, native 1080p, and text-to-video—character consistency as the product stake.
- [Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0: AA Speech Lead—and an Aug 5 Default Cutover](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/spacexai-grok-voice-think-fast-2) — Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 leads AA speech-to-speech at 82.9%; default API cutover Aug 5—pin or migrate.
- [Grok Build Mode: Prompt-to-URL Behind SuperGrok Heavy](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/spacexai-grok-build-mode) — Build Mode for SuperGrok Heavy turns prompts into live apps and sites with grok.me publish—early beta, Heavy-gated.
- [Grok 4.5 in GitHub Copilot: Channel Win, Not a New Elo](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/spacexai-grok-4-5-github-copilot) — Grok 4.5 lands in GitHub Copilot for VS Code, CLI, and cloud agents at $2/$6—distribution GTM, not a new bench.