xAI AI releases & news
Every xAI AI release AI/TLDR has verified from a primary source: 25 so far, mostly 14 models, 8 tools and 1 ecosystem. Latest: Grok Voice 3.0 — xAI's voice model tops the speech-to-speech index (2026-10-14).
25 releases tracked · x.ai
- Grok Voice 3.0 — xAI's voice model tops the speech-to-speech index
xAI's third-generation voice model ranks first on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index at the same price.
- Grok 4.7 — xAI's most capable model for coding and knowledge work
xAI's Grok 4.7 lifts coding and engineering scores over Grok 4.6 while holding the same $2/$6 price and 500K context.
- Grok 4.6 on Google's agent platform — xAI's flagship arrives in Model Garden
Grok 4.6 is listed in Google's Model Garden with a 500K context window and $2 / $6 per million tokens.
- Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock — xAI's flagship opens to AWS teams
Grok 4.6 is generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with a US-only and a global inference profile for AWS teams.
- Grok 4.6 — xAI's new flagship built for long-running agents
xAI's new flagship, improved through post-training rather than size, so it holds up over long agent runs.
- Grok Bot — xAI's always-on agents get their own cloud computer
xAI's agents now hold their own cloud machine, log into your tools, and finish the job while you are away.
- Grok Imagine Image 2.0 — xAI's image model adds region-level editing
xAI's new image model treats editing as a first-class feature, not an add-on.
- Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 — xAI's new voice model ships at 0.70s time-to-first-audio
xAI's next-gen voice model tops the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech leaderboard at sub-second latency.
- Grok in Google Workspace — free xAI add-on lands inside Docs, Sheets, and Slides
xAI turned Grok on inside every Google Workspace doc, sheet, and slide — free, one install, cited cells and all.
- Grok Build Workflows — xAI's coding CLI now fans a task across up to 1,024 parallel agents
Grok Build learned to fan a job across up to 1,024 parallel agents, verify with independent skeptics, and post one report — from a single slash command.
- Grok Automations — scheduled and email-triggered jobs land in Grok apps
Grok can now run a saved prompt on a timer or fire it off the moment a matching email lands in your inbox.
- Grok Build open-sourced — xAI ships the Rust source under Apache-2.0
xAI's Rust TUI coding agent is now Apache-2.0 — devs can audit it, run it local, or fork it.
- Grok 4.5 — xAI's Opus-class flagship at $2/$6 per million tokens
xAI's new coding flagship ties GPT-5.5 on Terminal-Bench at a quarter of the price of Fable 5 and Opus.
- xAI Grok Voice — 21 new flagship voices with speech tags for pacing
Grok Voice now ships 21 new multilingual flagship voices plus inline speech tags for pacing and whispering.
- xAI Voice Agent Builder — no-code builder for production voice agents
xAI's Voice Agent Builder is a no-code way to ship production voice agents on Grok Voice, priced by the minute.
- Grok on Databricks — xAI models land in Agent Bricks via SpaceX deal
xAI's Grok 4.3 and Grok Build 0.1 are now native model options inside Databricks' Agent Bricks platform.
- Grok Imagine Video 1.5 — xAI's image-to-video model goes GA at $0.14/sec 720p
xAI's image-to-video model — the engine behind Grok Imagine's video clips — is now generally available as a pay-per-second API.
- Former xAI Engineer Devin Kim Sues xAI and SpaceX Over Grok Safety Termination — California Filing Says Co-Founder Jimmy Ba Rejected Safety Guardrails, Allegedly Said 'AI Will Kill Us All Anyway', and Fired Kim Right Before His Internal Safety Presentation, Surfacing Days Ahead of SpaceX's IPO
An ex-xAI engineering lead is suing xAI and SpaceX, saying he was fired for trying to put guardrails on Grok.
- Grok Build 0.1 Lands on the xAI API in Public Beta — 256K Context, $1/$2 per 1M Tokens, 100+ Tokens/Sec for Agentic Coding
xAI's coding-focused model goes from CLI-only to a public-beta API at $1 in, $2 out per million tokens.
- xAI Ships Grok Skills — Teach Grok a Workflow Once and It Remembers Across Every Conversation on Web, iOS, and Android
Grok learns workflows on demand: teach a task once, and Grok keeps the recipe across every future chat.
- Grok Build — xAI's CLI Coding Agent Runs 8 Parallel Subagents With Plan Mode, Worktree Integration, and Local-First Privacy
xAI launches a CLI coding agent that splits work across eight concurrent subagents and lands diffs through plan mode.
- xAI Ships Grok Imagine Quality Mode to the API — Photorealistic Image Generation Starting at $0.01/Image
Grok's photorealistic image model — the engine behind 300M+ Grok generations — is now an API for any developer.
- Grok 4.3 — xAI's New Reasoning Flagship at $1.25/$2.50 per 1M Tokens, 1M-Token Context
xAI's new flagship reasoning model lands with a 1M-token window, image input, and lower per-token pricing than Grok 4.20.
- RUMOR — xAI Grok 4.3 Beta is a 0.5T model; 1T version trains in five days, per Elon Musk
RUMOR: Grok 4.3 Beta is 0.5T parameters; a 1T version is 'five days' from done, per Elon's own X posts. Read with usual Elon-timeline caution.
- Grok 4.20 Beta 2 — multi-agent reasoning with rapid learning
xAI's multi-agent reasoning model that routes queries to four parallel thinkers, updates itself weekly, and holds a 2-million-token context window.