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xAI is Elon Musk's AI lab behind the Grok models.

Google5d ago

Trump administration launches America.gov AI portal

The site uses Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok to guide users to federal services, with an executive order behind it.

2 min read · 29 September 2026
OpenAI12d ago

GPT-6 Sol and Luna: OpenAI halves its mid-tier prices 19 days after Astra

The flagship launched at $10 and $50 a million tokens. Three weeks on, the tiers beneath it got a permanent 50% cut — the clearer signal of where OpenAI's inference costs are actually heading.

4 min read · 22 September 2026
Anthropic12d ago

Claude Opus 5.5 quietly ends the case for paying Fable prices

Anthropic's new flagship matches its own premium model on most work at roughly two-fifths of Opus 5's running cost. The 90-minute race with OpenAI is the sideshow.

5 min read · 22 September 2026
xAI13d ago

Grok 4.7 holds its price while three rivals cut theirs — the bill is per task, not per token

xAI's new model beats its predecessor on every benchmark it published, at the same $2/$6 sticker. Artificial Analysis says finishing an average task now takes more than twice the tokens.

5 min read · 21 September 2026
Anthropic15d ago

Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI over alleged pacing pact

A proposed class action claims the four AI companies illegally agreed to slow product improvements, citing public statements from their chief executives.

2 min read · 20 September 2026
Google1mo ago

Gemini 3.7 Flash and the mid-tier price war Google can actually win

Google's cheapest model now beats Anthropic's and OpenAI's mid-tier rivals on one benchmark and undercuts both on price. Its actual flagship still doesn't exist.

4 min read · 13 August 2026
xAI1mo ago

Grok 4.6 competes on turns, not IQ — and that is the more interesting claim

xAI's August release matches GPT-5.6 Sol on a composite index at a third of the headline price. The number that matters is 53 turns against 103.

3 min read · 12 August 2026
xAI1mo ago

Tesla and SpaceX confirm $16.8bn Terafab chip campus in Texas

The two Musk-run companies will build a vertically integrated semiconductor site in Grimes County to make custom 2-nanometre chips

2 min read · 7 August 2026
xAI3mo ago

xAI's Grok 4.5 enters private beta at SpaceX and Tesla

xAI has put its 1.5-trillion-parameter Grok 4.5 in front of SpaceX and Tesla engineers first. With no benchmarks and no system card, Musk's 'beats Opus' claim is untestable.

3 min read · 28 June 2026
xAI4mo ago

xAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 turns a still into video — and stakes a claim in the generative-video race

A preview model that animates a single photo, at up to 720p, puts xAI squarely in the fastest-moving corner of the field.

4 min read · 3 June 2026
xAI4mo ago

Grok V9 'done training' — what Musk's claim is actually worth

An announcement, not a release — and from a company whose timelines keep slipping.

4 min read · 25 May 2026