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 ...

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 ...

xAI hired contractors to help Grok climb a popular AI leaderboard with the goal of overtaking Anthropic. Training documents show xAI wanted to "beat Sonnet 3.7 Extended," Anthropic's coding rival. AI ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk led xAI has launched its Grok 3 series of models during a live-stream on Tuesday. The new Grok 3 model is said to have 10x more compute than the last generation and will compete with the ...

Grok's First Vibe-Coding Agent Has a High 'Dishonesty Rate' Elon Musk's xAI markets Grok-code-fast-1 as a 'speedy and economical' alternative, but the fine print tells a different story. It's ...

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'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 ...