I've always been a bit intrigued by Grok because of the name. Grok was coined by Robert Heinlein, one of my very favorite science fiction writers. I fully credit Heinlein with twisting my young brain.

Grok 4 and its reasoning-focused counterpart, Grok 4 Heavy, arrived with an immediate sense of ambition, offering multimodal AI designed to handle coding, logic, and perception tasks. In the initial ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Tech companies are fiercely competing to build the best AI coding tools — and for xAI, the top rival to beat seems to be Anthropic. Elon Musk's AI company used contractors to train Grok on coding ...

Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue.

An AI model on OpenRouter is called Sonoma Sky Alpha is likely a preview of XAI Grok 4.2. It highlights xAI’s rapid progress in compute power, model diversity, and specialized applications like coding ...

The new line of coding model may be faster but also less honest, as it fares worse there than the already problematic Grok 4. Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, ...

xAI added Grok 4 powered vending machine in its office, in partnership with Andon Labs. XAI Grok 4 beat OpenAI GPT-5 in real world vending machine operation This shows Grok 4’s long-term coherence ...

The rise of vibe coding is based on the promise of services like GPT-5: that in the future, you won’t have to know how to program at all in order to “create” software — you’ll just need to know how to ...

Some SpaceX engineers have been slow to adopt Grok for technical work because it’s not as effective as rival tools, according ...

The big picture: In recent days, the AI community has witnessed the emergence of a new generation of AI models, heralding a significant leap in capabilities and potential applications. Claude 3.7 and ...

Elon Musk-backed xAI has been missing in action for a while now, but today, Musk teased a major upgrade for Grok alongside new products. Grok is xAI's LLM model, and it competes head-to-head with Sam ...