SpaceXAI shipped Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 with two claims stacked on top of each other: twice as accurate as version 1.0, and first among 32 streaming models. Both are defensible. Neither is the reason the release matters.
xAI launched Grok Bot, a beta team of always-on AI agents that each get their own cloud computer and sign into your apps to complete multi-step tasks.
xAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29, 2026, a speech-to-speech model with sharper transcription and fewer reasoning tokens.
xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026 as the new Quality Mode on Grok, now ranked second on both image arenas behind gpt-image-2.
xAI expanded Grok Imagine Video 1.5 with native 1080p, text-to-video, and up to seven locked image and voice references, live August 1 on web, iOS, Android, and the API.
xAI has launched Grok Build Mode, an early beta that turns a single chat prompt into a working, publishable app, website, or game.
xAI pushed Grok Imagine Video 1.5 to wide release on June 17, 2026, topping the image-to-video leaderboard with native audio at about $4.20 per minute, roughly 86 percent below Sora 2.
xAI shipped the Grok Build Plugin Marketplace on June 11, 2026, a built-in catalog for its terminal coding agent with six partner plugins, open-source distribution, and commit pinning.
xAI added file storage, public URLs, and a Files-to-Imagine pipeline to the Grok Imagine API on June 10, 2026, removing the upload-download shuffle from automated image and video edits.
xAI Grok Imagine 1.5 takes the top spot on the image-to-video arena leaderboard with 720p generation and synchronized audio output.
xAI shipped grok-build-0.1: a 256K-context coding model trained for agentic workflows. Free in the Grok CLI, $1/$2 per 1M tokens via Kilo Code.
xAI on May 21, 2026 enabled SuperGrok and X Premium subscribers to use Grok Build, the company's terminal coding agent, directly inside OpenCode without an API key.
xAI shipped Skills for Grok 4.3 on May 18, 2026, closing the last persistent-workspace gap with Claude Projects, Custom GPTs, and Gemini Gems. We tested all four head to head on persistence, document tools, file context, connectors, distribution, and pricing for creator workflows.
xAI launched Grok Connectors on May 7, 2026, giving Grok direct read access to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook, SharePoint, Notion, Slack, and HubSpot.
xAI is retiring grok-imagine-image-pro and 7 other Grok models on May 15, 2026. The new grok-imagine-image-quality model delivers better realism and text rendering -- here is how to migrate.
xAI pushed Grok 4.3 to the public API on April 30 and bundled Custom Voices, a one-minute voice cloning workflow, at no per-voice surcharge. The release consolidates text, voice, and creative agents on a single xAI bill.
xAI quietly shipped Grok Imagine Agent on April 30, 2026, giving Heavy and Super Grok subscribers an autonomous AI that decomposes project briefs into planned multi-asset generation runs.
xAI launched the Grok Voice Agent API April 18 with standalone speech-to-text and text-to-speech endpoints priced at $0.10 per hour batch STT and $4.20 per million characters TTS.
X has rolled out a Grok-powered photo editor that lets users modify images through natural language prompts directly in the post composer. Currently available on iOS for Premium subscribers.
xAI expanded Grok Imagine templates from mobile to web on March 16, letting users transform photos into AI-generated content through one-click template workflows.
Devendra Singh Chaplot, Mistral AI co-founder, joins xAI to work on Grok model training as Musk's third major talent hire in one week.
When Elon Musk publicly admitted on March 13 that "xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up," he confirmed what the numbers already showed: the AI coding assistant market has clear winners, and Grok is not among them
Elon Musk stated on March 13, 2026 that "xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up." The admission came as 10 of the company's 12 original co-founders have departed, and xAI is now recruiting engineers from Cursor to rebuild its AI coding tools