Grok 4.6: Built for Long-Running Agents and Visual Work
xAI's Grok 4.6 launches with a focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work, introduced first through Cursor's platform.
San Jose Judge Blocks xAI Bid to Name Grok Deepfake Plaintiffs
A San Jose judge blocked xAI's attempt to identify anonymous victims in a lawsuit over Grok-generated deepfakes, ruling that revealing their identities would cause further harm. The case highlights the legal challenges of AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery.
xAI Releases Grok 4.5: Opus-Class Performance at Half the Price of Competitors
Grok 4.5 targets coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work at $2 per million input and $6 per million output tokens — roughly half the price of leading rivals.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Beats Sora, Veo, and Kling in Blind User Benchmarks at 86% Lower Cost
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 beat Sora 2, Veo 3.1, and Kling in blind user benchmarks at 86% lower cost, with native audio and dialogue in one pass.
xAI Files Lawsuit Against Grok User Over Sexualized Deepfakes Generated With the Tool
xAI filed a lawsuit against a Grok user who generated sexualized deepfakes with the platform, as a separate child-exploitation class action names Stability AI a co-defendant.
xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
Devin Kim, a former xAI engineer, is suing xAI and SpaceX, alleging he was fired in September 2025 for raising AI safety concerns about Grok before SpaceX's historic IPO.
xAI Lands Federal Government AI Contract at Just $0.42 Per Agency
The GSA signed an 18-month OneGov agreement giving every federal agency Grok 4 access for $0.42 per agency through March 2027, with dedicated xAI engineering support.
xAI Financials Revealed in SpaceX IPO Filing: $2.47B Quarterly Loss Amid Explosive $12.7B Annual CapEx
SpaceX's IPO prospectus reveals xAI lost $2.47 billion on $818 million revenue in Q1 2026, with $12.7 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 alone, providing the most detailed picture yet of frontier AI model economics.
xAI Launches Grok 4.3 API With 83% Price Cut, Grok Build CLI, and Grok Skills for Persistent AI Workflows
xAI released Grok 4.3 to all API developers with an 83% price cut, launched Grok Build as a coding agent CLI, and introduced Grok Skills for reusable, cross-conversation AI workflows.