Siladitya Ray / Forbes ·
Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was "unsustainably high relative to revenue", in response to subscribers complaining about SpaceX's usage limits
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Mariella Moon / Engadget ·
SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot
One membership will give you access to SpaceXSI's products.
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg ·
Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering
SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is considering an overhaul of its subscription pricing options …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google ·
Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are now operational after widespread outages on Thursday
A widespread outage has taken out popular AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.
Grace Kay / The Information ·
At his first Cursor all-hands, Elon Musk says Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic leads the AI race, and more
Earlier this month, on the day SpaceX announced it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Elon Musk called …
Washington Post ·
A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online
When Jane Doe 4, as she is identified in legal filings, arrived at her parents' house in Wyoming to set up a family party earlier this year …
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg ·
SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues
- Musk's firm struggled with latency issues with Colossus 1
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg ·
Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out
Elon Musk's xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company's Grok chatbot …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge ·
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events
Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused.
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal ·
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2
Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring
Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching …