xAI
xAI is Elon Musk's AI company, the maker of the Grok models built into X (Twitter) and trained on the Colossus supercomputer. After merging with X, it combines a frontier lab with a social platform's distribution and data. All our xAI and Grok coverage lives on this page.
Musk Abandons Solar Energy: xAI Switches to Natural Gas
Elon Musk's companies are shifting energy strategy: xAI opts for natural gas while SpaceX pursues orbital data centers, diverging from his promised solar-electric…
AI Chatbots Spread Misinformation to Voters Before Scottish Elections
A Demos study found that ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI services provided voters with incorrect information about Scottish elections in a third of their responses.
Anthropic to spend $45 billion on SpaceX compute to develop Claude
Anthropic has agreed to pay SpaceX $45 billion over three years for access to the computing resources needed to develop its AI assistant Claude.
NVIDIA invests $2.1 billion in IREN's AI data center infrastructure
Who is stricter with JSON: OpenAI, Gemini, and xAI tested for schema compliance
Anthropic in talks to raise $30 billion at a $900 billion valuation
Deepseek-agent: how to write your own Claude Code in 2,000 lines of code
How 15 AI models approach finding the optimal XML parser for iOS: benchmark results
A developer gave 15 popular AI models the same task of finding a fast XML parser for iOS and compared their results with his own three-hour manual benchmark — the…
Musk's xAI unveiled Grok Build, its first AI coder to compete with Claude
xAI has launched Grok Build, an AI agent for writing code, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Claude in the developer tools segment.
Google, Microsoft and xAI to let the US review AI models before release
SpaceX to invest up to $119 billion in Terafab chip plant in Texas
Anthropic and Elon Musk's xAI signed a deal for compute resources
Musk tried to recruit Altman to Tesla to build an AI lab
xAI adds 19 gas turbines for Colossus 2 despite litigation
xAI is expanding the power infrastructure of the Colossus 2 data center by adding 19 portable gas generators despite litigation over air pollution.
Musk's xAI launched 50 gas turbines without oversight in Mississippi
xAI's Colossus 2 data center uses nearly 50 gas turbines for power, prompting a lawsuit over the lack of proper regulatory oversight.