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 ...

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-funded xAI is skipping Grok 3.5 and releasing Grok 4 after Independence Day in the United States, and it could be the best model from the company. Grok 3.5 was originally supposed to be a ...

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 writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Elon Musk's xAI released its first agentic coding model, which claims to be "speedy and economical. " However, it also ...

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 ...

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 ...

What if you could generate functional code in mere seconds without breaking the bank? Imagine a tool that could prototype a web app, debug a script, or create simple animations faster than you could ...

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 ...

Elon Musk's XAI unveiled its latest artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok 3, which the tech billionaire has described as the "smartest AI on Earth". Musk's AI startup xAI launched its Grok 3 chatbot ...

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 ...