Elon Musk

10 articles tagged with Elon Musk

September 29, 2026
product update

Grokipedia Resumes Article Updates After Months-Long Pause

Grokipedia, xAI's AI-powered encyclopedia, is showing signs of renewed activity after articles went unreviewed since April 2026. Pages are being re-fact-checked by Grok, though coverage remains inconsistent across the site.

September 21, 2026
model releasexAI

xAI Releases Grok 4.7 at $2/$6 per Million Tokens, Trails Claude and GPT-6 on Benchmarks

xAI has launched Grok 4.7 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, undercutting Western rivals on price. But independent benchmarks show it trailing Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 by a wide margin, especially in agentic coding.

August 29, 2026
product updateOpenAI

OpenAI to Cut Off Cursor's API Access After SpaceXAI Acquisition, Effective November 12, 2026

OpenAI announced it will stop providing its models to AI coding assistant Cursor on November 12, 2026, following Cursor's acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceXAI. The company cited a lack of confidence that SpaceXAI would honor its terms of service, pointing to xAI's admitted use of OpenAI outputs to train competing models.

product updateOpenAI

OpenAI to Cut Off Cursor's API Access Nov. 12 After SpaceX Acquisition

OpenAI will terminate its API contract with AI coding tool Cursor on November 12, 2026, following SpaceX's acquisition of the company. OpenAI cites Elon Musk's past contract violations, including the 2022 Twitter data cutoff and admitted use of rival AI outputs to train Grok.

product updateOpenAI

OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor's Model Access After SpaceX Acquisition, Effective November 12

OpenAI announced it is ending its partnership with Cursor after the coding-assistant company's acquisition by SpaceX, cutting off direct model access on November 12. Cursor says OpenAI models account for only 5% of its traffic and is seeking to reverse the decision.

August 13, 2026
analysis

Grok 4.6 and Meta's Muse Glimmer Narrow the Gap With OpenAI and Anthropic

xAI's Grok 4.6 scored nearly even with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while Meta launched Muse Glimmer, a laptop-runnable open-weight model. Musk says Grok 4.7 will arrive in three to four weeks and claims it will 'exceed all current models.'

model releasexAI+1

xAI Releases Grok 4.6, a 1.5T-Parameter Model Powering New 'Grok Bot' AI Teammate Product

xAI released Grok 4.6, a confirmed 1.5T-parameter model built on Grok 4.5 with heavier training on long-horizon agentic tasks. It powers the newly launched Grok Bot product and scores 61 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at $2/$6 per 1M input/output tokens — well below frontier competitors.

July 8, 2026
model release

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 at $2/$6 per million tokens, targets coding and enterprise work

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The model, trained alongside recently-acquired Cursor, is positioned as a coding and enterprise tool that claims to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 on several benchmarks while undercutting it on price by 60-76%.

June 18, 2026
analysisxAI+1

Meta's Former AI Chief LeCun Calls xAI a 'Failure,' Warns of AI Industry 'Bubble Explosion'

Yann LeCun, former Meta chief AI scientist and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a "failure" that won't be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. LeCun warned that AI labs are at risk of a "big bubble explosion" because current pricing doesn't cover operational costs, with services funded primarily by investors.

May 15, 2026
product updatexAI

xAI launches Grok Build coding agent at $300/month, available only to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers

xAI has released Grok Build, a coding agent and CLI tool positioned to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code and other AI coding assistants. The early beta is available exclusively to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers at $300 per month.