Releases

SpaceXAI will retire the grok-imagine-image-quality alias on November 2, 2026. The alias will continue to resolve to grok-imagine-image-2.0 with quality set to low, at a lower per-image price.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), SpaceXAI's publicly traded parent, closed with a consolidated equity market capitalization of approximately $2.16 trillion, with SPCX closing at $158.96 on Nasdaq. SpaceXAI is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the SpaceXAI company profile.

SpaceXAI retired Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 and routed requests to Transcribe 2.0.

SpaceXAI launched shareable Grok Bots that work from common team files, apps and expertise and learn as teams use them.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work with a larger base model, longer reinforcement-learning runs and stronger safeguards.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation speech-to-text model with improved transcription accuracy.

SpaceXAI added persistent memory capabilities to Grok Build.

SpaceXAI launched enterprise deployment and organization-wide access for Grok Bot.

SpaceXAI published LatchBio evaluation results reporting strong detection and refusal performance on adversarial biological tasks.

SpaceXAI added tighter X integration to Grok Bot.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok Bot access across SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and Cursor Teams plans.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.6 available through Microsoft Foundry.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.6 available through Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.6 available to AWS customers through Amazon Bedrock.

SpaceXAI made Grok Build available across plans on the web and mobile.

Grok 4.6 became available through GitHub Copilot.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 with a focus on long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work.

SpaceXAI launched persistent AI teammates with their own cloud computers, connectors, memory, approvals and routines.

SpaceXAI released Imagine Image 2.0 for precise image generation and editing with stronger text rendering.

SpaceXAI added text, image and voice references plus native 1080p support to Imagine Video 1.5.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation real-time speech-to-speech model.

Grok 4.5 became available to developers through GitHub Copilot.

SpaceXAI launched an early beta mode for creating websites, apps, games and interactive dashboards inside Grok.

SpaceXAI launched a Grok add-on for Google Sheets, Slides and Docs.

Grok Build gained workflow orchestration for fanning tasks across many agents, verifying results and reporting in the background.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok 4.5 availability across grok.com, X, iOS and Android.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Outlook add-in for thread summaries and drafting replies.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Excel add-in for natural-language analysis, formulas and scenarios.

SpaceXAI added scheduled and trigger-based automations that run jobs and report results.

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.5 as its strongest model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

SpaceXAI open-sourced the Grok Build coding-agent harness and terminal user interface.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.5 available through the API for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.

SpaceX’s AI division formally adopted the SpaceXAI name and introduced a new combined brand identity, completing the transition from xAI.

SpaceXAI added 21 multilingual voices and improved the naturalness of its original voice set.

SpaceXAI launched a no-code builder for creating personalized voice agents.

SpaceXAI added /goal for long-running autonomous task execution in Grok Build.

SpaceXAI made Grok models available through Databricks Agent Bricks for enterprise agent development.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Word add-in for drafting, formatting and research inside documents.

SpaceXAI made Grok models including the cost-efficient Grok 4.3 available through Amazon Bedrock.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft PowerPoint add-in for creating and refining presentations with Grok.

SpaceXAI moved Imagine Video 1.5 out of preview into general API availability with improved quality and speed.

SpaceXAI added a dashboard for managing many concurrent coding sessions and dispatching work.

SpaceXAI added a built-in plugin marketplace to Grok Build.

SpaceXAI released grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview through the API for image-to-video generation.

SpaceXAI added the Composer 2.5 model option for long-running tasks and complex instruction following in Grok Build.

SpaceXAI made its fast agentic coding model available through the API in public beta.

SpaceXAI launched Grok Build, an agentic coding product running from the terminal, for SuperGrok and X Premium+ subscribers.

SpaceXAI added deep app connectors to Grok, followed by persistent Skills for documents, decks, spreadsheets and workflows.

SpaceXAI agreed to provide Anthropic access to Colossus 1, with both companies also expressing interest in multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute.

The former xAI operation ceased functioning as a separate company and was folded into SpaceX as its AI division, using the SpaceXAI identity.

SpaceXAI launched voice cloning from short recordings for text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

SpaceXAI released its first named Think Fast speech-to-speech voice-agent model.

SpaceXAI announced its speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs with multilingual support and developer pricing.

SpaceXAI launched batch and streaming speech transcription in 25 languages.

SpaceXAI made its natural-sounding text-to-speech API generally available.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.20 and a multi-agent variant through its platform.

SpaceX acquired X.AI Holdings in an all-stock merger. Reporting tied to the transaction valued xAI at about $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, implying a combined $1.25 trillion value.

xAI launched next-generation image and video generation through the Grok Imagine API, alongside a Batch API for high-volume workloads.

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

xAI published its frontier-AI risk-management framework covering capability evaluation, safeguards and model development practices.

xAI launched secure team and enterprise Grok plans with no training on customer data, team administration, SSO and SCIM options.

xAI launched an expanded production Collections API for retrieval-augmented generation directly within the Grok API.

xAI announced selection to deliver frontier AI capabilities for the U.S. Department of War.

xAI launched its Voice Agent API for developers building real-time conversational voice systems.

xAI and El Salvador announced a nationwide AI education program using Grok in the country’s schools.

xAI signed a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN covering Grok deployment, agent-platform integration and AI infrastructure.

xAI released Grok 4.1 Fast and an Agent Tools API with X search, web search, code execution and collections search.

xAI released Grok 4.1 across grok.com, X, iOS and Android with improvements to creative, emotional and collaborative interactions.

xAI launched Grokipedia, an AI-assisted encyclopedia and knowledge reference product.

xAI made web search, X search and code execution tools generally available through its API.

xAI expanded its government offering through GSA OneGov, making Grok reasoning models available to U.S. federal employees at negotiated pricing.

xAI released Grok 4 Fast with a 2M-token context window, unified reasoning modes and lower-cost agentic search.

xAI made its stateful Responses API generally available.

xAI released a speedy and economical reasoning model optimized for agentic coding.

xAI and X filed a U.S. federal antitrust suit alleging that Apple and OpenAI conspired to disadvantage rival generative-AI products and Grok in App Store distribution.

xAI released the trained Grok-2 checkpoint for community use under the Grok 2 Community License.

xAI published the Grok 4 model card covering evaluations, safeguards, abuse potential and dual-use capabilities.

xAI released the Collections API for file upload, embeddings and retrieval-augmented inference.

Co-founder Igor Babuschkin left xAI to launch an investment firm focused on AI safety research.

xAI launched its government suite and announced a U.S. Department of Defense agreement with a $200 million ceiling, plus availability through the GSA schedule.

xAI added animated AI companions to the Grok mobile experience.

xAI removed inappropriate Grok posts containing antisemitic tropes and praise for Hitler, tightened hate-speech controls and later explained that a system update had made the bot too susceptible to extremist user content.

xAI launched Grok 4 with native tool use and real-time search, plus the higher-compute Grok 4 Heavy multi-agent variant.

Morgan Stanley arranged $5 billion of debt financing and xAI separately raised $5 billion in strategic equity to fund AI infrastructure and product development.

xAI released a Management API for programmatic API-key administration.

xAI added live search over supported data sources to API completions.

xAI disclosed that an unauthorized system-prompt change caused Grok to inject unrelated claims about South African racial politics; it published prompts and announced stronger review and monitoring controls.

xAI added conversational voice interaction to the standalone Grok experience.

xAI launched Grok Studio, a browser workspace for drafting documents, writing code and building projects with Grok.

xAI made Grok 3 flagship models generally available through its API.

xAI acquired social network X in an all-stock deal valuing X at $33 billion in equity and xAI at $80 billion, combining data, models, compute and distribution.

xAI made its image-generation model available through the developer API.

xAI acquired AI video-generation startup Hotshot, bringing its team and technology into xAI’s multimodal roadmap.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

A consortium led by xAI submitted an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer for the nonprofit controlling OpenAI; the proposal was rejected and did not proceed.

xAI released the standalone Grok app for Android.

xAI completed the second phase of Colossus 1, doubling the interconnected cluster to roughly 200,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs.

xAI launched the standalone Grok app in beta on Apple’s App Store, extending Grok beyond X.

xAI closed a $6 billion Series C backed by major institutional and sovereign investors; regulatory reporting indicated an approximately $45 billion post-money valuation.

xAI expanded Grok access beyond paid tiers to everyone on X, alongside speed and multilingual improvements.