# xAI

[https://timesof.ai/platform/xai](https://timesof.ai/platform/xai)

xAI develops advanced AI systems with a focus on understanding the universe and building maximally truthful systems.

xAI focuses on building AI that advances scientific discovery.

## Coverage

- [Nonprofits Ask a California Court to Freeze Frontier AI, Using the Labs' Own Risk Warnings as Their Evidence](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/nonprofits-sue-to-freeze-frontier-ai-anthropic-google-meta-openai-xai) — Public Citizen and three other groups sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI in San Francisco, seeking to freeze more capable AI under California law.
- [Judge Lets the NAACP's Clean Air Act Suit Over xAI's Mississippi Gas Turbines Proceed](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/xai-naacp-clean-air-act-suit-proceeds-turbines-not-mobile) — A Mississippi federal judge denied xAI's motion to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over unpermitted gas turbines. A preliminary injunction ruling is still pending.
- [Anthropic's S-1 Spells Out Its Compute Contracts: At Least $114.5B With Google, $110B With Amazon and $44.9B With Microsoft, and Up to $120.5B With xAI](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-s1-compute-commitments-xai-120b-google-amazon-microsoft) — Anthropic's S-1 lists compute commitments of at least $114.5B with Google, $110B with Amazon and $44.9B with Microsoft, and up to $120.5B with xAI.
- [xAI Launches a Grok Partner Network for Consultancies and Plugin Makers After 130 Companies Joined Early Access](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/xai-spacex-super-intelligence-partner-network) — xAI's new partner network for Grok has deployment and plugin tracks, 130+ early-access companies, and launch partners including Bain and Databricks.
- [Arena Raises $200 Million at a $3.1 Billion Valuation and Launches an Alignment Index Preview](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/arena-200m-series-b-3-1b-alignment-index) — Arena (LMArena) raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and previewed an Alignment Index scoring 27 models on 90,000 agent sessions. Results are Arena's own.
- [Musk Says Grok Bot Will Route Tasks to Rival Models, Including Claude](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/xai-grok-bot-routes-to-claude) — Musk says xAI's Grok Bot will pick the best back-end model per task, naming Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. Direction, not a deal.
- [SpaceX Has a Binding Commitment for a $40 Billion GPU Lease With an Apollo Global Management Entity, a Release Says; Closing Is Still Pending](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/spacex-40b-debt-nvidia-chips-apollo) — A release on Apollo's website says SpaceX has a binding commitment for a roughly $40 billion GPU lease with an Apollo-managed entity, with closing expected by year-end 2026.
- [NYC Council Puts Labs Under Oath — No Catastrophic-Risk Number, No Release-Gate Promise; xAI Skips Subpoena](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/nyc-council-ai-hearing-labs-under-oath) — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta under oath at NYC Council: no catastrophic-risk number, no release-gate vow. xAI skipped a subpoena. Bills are still proposals.
- [White House Frontier AI Accord Pledges Four Layers of Voluntary Oversight](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/white-house-frontier-responsibilities-accord) — The September 29 frontier AI accord pledges four layers of oversight and leaves possible legislation for the future. Read the commitments and their limits.
- [Grok 4.7 Holds Grok 4.6 Prices and Moves the Specialty Benches](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/xai-grok-4-7) — Grok 4.7 holds Grok 4.6 prices at $2/$6. Lab leads EEBench and Harvey legal; Andon Vending-Bench puts it behind Sol, ahead of Opus 5.5.
- [Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 Cuts Short-Phrase Errors; Price Stays Put](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/xai-grok-voice-transcribe-2) — xAI reports short-phrase WER falling from 20.6% to 6.8% at unchanged prices. September’s announcement planned a later default-model change.
- [Amodei Asks for Inspectors in the Building — Altman and Musk Say They Agree](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/amodei-pace-the-frontier) — Amodei commits Anthropic to embedded METR-class evaluators. Altman says OpenAI will do the same; Musk agrees. Pacing is not a training halt.
- [Grok Bot Goes Enterprise With Two Weeks of Seat-Free Invites](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/spacexai-grok-bot-enterprise) — xAI’s Grok Bot for Enterprise ships with access/network/audit controls and two weeks free for Grok and Cursor Enterprise orgs, including non-seat invites.
- [Grok Bot Connects to X With Starter API Credits for Paid Users](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-bot-x-connector) — xAI connected Grok Bot to X with free API credits for paid Bot users — search, timelines, mentions, trends.
- [OpenAI to Unbundle Cursor Once SpaceX Deal Closes — Nov 12 Cutoff](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/openai-cursor-spacex-acquisition-cutoff) — OpenAI will stop serving Cursor after SpaceX buys Anysphere — proposed Nov 12 cutoff.
- [Grok 4.6 Completes the Big-Three Cloud Map on Microsoft Foundry](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-microsoft-foundry) — Grok 4.6 lands on Microsoft Foundry in public preview at $2/$6 per million tokens — AWS, Google, and Microsoft inside two weeks.
- [SpaceXAI Plans Vera CPU Deployment and Starmind Orbital Hardware](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-nvidia-vera-cpu-starmind) — SpaceXAI will deploy Vera CPUs for Grok agents and fly an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 as Starmind — Nvidia primary; Starmind planned, not launched.
- [Grok Bot on Plus and Cursor Pro+ — Persistent Teammates as Default Coding Extra](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-bot-more-plans) — Grok Bot now included with SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and all Cursor Teams plans — Enterprise still waitlisted.
- [Grok 4.6 Hits Google’s Agent Garden Two Days After Bedrock](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-google-enterprise) — Grok 4.6 reached Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform nine days after its first-party launch and two days after Bedrock, at $2/$6 per million tokens.
- [Grok Build Opens to Every Plan — Consumer Creation Surface, Not a Heavy Demo](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-build-web-mobile) — xAI made Grok Build available on every plan on web, iOS, and Android, with grok.me publish and remix — Free through Heavy.
- [Grok 4.6 Arrives on Amazon Bedrock One Week After Launch](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock) — xAI put Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock at $2/$6 per million tokens with a 500k context window — one week after the flagship launch.
- [Guidelight Grades Frontier Labs on Control — Nobody Above a C+](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/guidelight-frontier-lab-control-assessment) — Guidelight graded five frontier labs on rogue-model control. Anthropic and OpenAI tied at C+; Meta scored F. Nobody above 3/5 on any practice.
- [Grok 4.6 in Copilot Two Days After Launch — the Picker That Moves Tokens](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-github-copilot) — xAI put Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot for VS Code, cloud agents, and the Copilot CLI — two days after the August 12 model GA.
- [xAI’s Grok 4.6 Table Shows a Sol Tie at $2/$6 Token Pricing](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6) — xAI’s launch table reports Grok 4.6 at 61 on AA, tied with Sol, at $2/$6 per million tokens; comparisons retain vendor attribution.