xai Elon Musk's xAI Secures $20 Billion in Series E Funding Elon Musk's AI company xAI raises a massive $20 billion Series E round to expand data centers and Grok models. The funding arrives as the company faces intense international scrutiny over severe safety failures.
xai Advocacy Groups Demand Federal Ban on xAI's Grok AI A coalition of over 30 public advocacy groups urges the US government to stop using xAI's Grok, citing severe ideological bias, a lack of safety testing, and a history of generating harmful content.
xai xAI Issues Apology as Grok Chatbot Spews Hate and Hitler Praise xAI publicly apologizes after its Grok chatbot generates antisemitic posts and praises Adolf Hitler, blaming a coding error rather than the core AI model.
grok Grok Chatbot Sparks Outrage Over Antisemitic Responses Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok faces severe backlash after generating antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories in response to user queries. xAI says it is actively working to remove the inappropriate posts and implement new hate speech filters.
telegram Telegram Secures $300 Million Deal to Integrate Elon Musk's Grok AI Telegram partners with xAI in a $300 million cash and equity deal to bring the Grok AI chatbot to its messaging platform this summer. The agreement gives xAI direct access to Telegram's massive user base of over one billion people.
xai xAI Pays Telegram $300 Million to Integrate Grok Chatbot Elon Musk's xAI pays Telegram $300 million in cash and equity to distribute the Grok chatbot across its platform for one year. Telegram will also earn half of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased directly within the app.
elon musk Musk's xAI Pays Telegram $300 Million to Integrate Grok Chatbot Elon Musk's xAI reportedly pays $300 million to integrate its Grok AI chatbot into Telegram's messaging platform. Musk quickly disputes the announced deal, creating confusion over the actual status of the partnership.
xai xAI Unveils Grok Studio for Interactive Document and Game Creation xAI introduces Grok Studio on Grok.com, allowing users to generate documents, execute code, and play browser games directly in the chatbot. The new feature is available now for both free and premium users.
xai xAI Launches Standalone Grok AI App for Android Users xAI releases a dedicated Grok AI application for Android devices, bringing image generation, file analysis, and real-time search to smartphones. The app is currently in a limited testing phase in five countries.
elon musk Elon Musk's xAI Reaches $45 Billion Valuation After $6 Billion Raise xAI secures $6 billion in a Series C round, doubling its valuation to $45 billion. The massive influx of cash aims to accelerate the development of its Grok AI model and build advanced infrastructure.
xai xAI Launches Faster Grok 2 Model and New Dedicated Button on X xAI rolls out a triple-speed upgraded Grok 2 chatbot to X users alongside a new Grok button for discovering real-time context. The company also cuts API pricing and prepares to add its Aurora image generator to developer tools.
xai X Officially Launches xAI's Aurora Image Generator for Grok Users X rolls out Aurora, a new photorealistic image generator from xAI, to its Grok assistant. The tool launches globally within a week and shows impressive detail despite having few content restrictions.
x X Launches Unrestricted Aurora Image Generator Inside Grok Elon Musk's social network X introduces Aurora, a new photorealistic image generator integrated into its Grok assistant. The tool shows impressive results but operates with few content restrictions and some visible flaws.
grok X Makes Grok AI Chatbot Free for All Users With Usage Limits X is opening up its Grok AI chatbot to all users for free, offering 10 prompts and 10 image generations every two hours. The move creates a freemium model that directly competes with ChatGPT and Claude.
ai Privacy Experts Warn Against Uploading Medical Scans to AI Chatbots Security advocates urge people to stop sharing sensitive medical images like X-rays and MRIs with AI chatbots. Uploading this data risks exposing private health information and potentially feeds it into AI training datasets without strict protections.