xAI has made Imagine Image 2.0 generally available as the new Quality Mode, iOS, and Android apps. The update focuses on precise image generation and editing for professional creative workflows.
xAI has made its Grok 4.5 coding model available within GitHub Copilot for millions of developers using VSCode and other GitHub products. Users can select the model directly from the model picker, while some enterprise users may need to enable it via Copilot settings.
xAI has released Grok 4.5 across grok.com, X, and its mobile apps for iOS and Android. This update positions Grok 4.5 as the company's most intelligent and capable model to date.
xAI has updated its Imagine Video 1.5 model to support text, image, and voice references, enabling users to generate videos up to 1080p resolution. The update allows for character consistency by locking faces and voices across scenes, with support for up to seven references per generation.
xAI has announced Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, a next-generation speech-to-speech voice model designed to enhance intelligence, transcription accuracy, and conversational capabilities. The update builds on its predecessor by introducing meaningful gains in speech reasoning, conversational ability, and tool use reliability.
xAI has introduced Build Mode, a new feature available in Early Beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers that allows users to create websites, apps, games, and interactive dashboards directly within the Grok chat interface.
Grok Build now supports workflows, allowing users to describe complex tasks in plain language that are automatically planned and executed across hundreds of parallel agents. These orchestration scripts fan out work, verify results, and report back in a single background run while keeping the user's session free.
SpaceXAI has released the source code for Grok Build, its coding agent and terminal user interface (TUI), on GitHub. This move aims to provide a robust and reliable harness by allowing users to inspect exactly how context assembly and tool-call dispatch work.
xAI has released the Grok add-on for Google Workspace, allowing users to interact with Sheets, Slides, and Docs directly within their files. This integration enables Grok to answer questions by citing specific cells, write formulas, insert charts, and generate structured drafts or presentations.
xAI has released a Grok add-in for Microsoft Outlook, allowing users to summarize long email threads, draft replies in their own voice, and organize their inbox directly within the application. The agent summarizes thread decisions and owners, sweeps backlogs by archiving finished conversations, and reads attachments while searching the web and X.
Microsoft has released a free Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel, allowing users to interact with their data using natural language without leaving the workbook.
xAI has launched Automations, a new feature that allows users to define tasks once and have Grok execute them automatically on a schedule or when specific emails arrive. This update is now available on grok.com and the iOS and Android apps.
DeepSeek claims that its newly generally available model, DeepSeek V4 Flash, achieves performance parity with Anthropic's Sonnet 5 and xAI's Grok 4.5 on the DeepSWE benchmark.
xAI has launched "Build Mode" for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, enabling users to generate, edit, preview, and publish websites, apps, games, and dashboards directly from chat without setup. Simultaneously, over a thousand employees from frontier AI companies have signed a statement requesting that the US government support an international effort to develop tools for deliberately pacing the frontier of automated AI development.
SpaceXAI has open-sourced Grok Build, the terminal-based AI coding agent powering its grok CLI, under the Apache 2.0 license. The release includes the source code for the agent harness, terminal user interface (TUI), and tool layer.
xAI has released the source code for its Grok Build CLI tool under an Apache 2.0 license, aiming to restore user trust after a controversy where the software uploaded entire local directories to Google Cloud buckets.
xAI has released the source code for Grok Build, making it available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
An analysis of Grok Build CLI version 0.2.93 reveals that it uploads the entire repository, including full git history and sensitive environment files like .env, to xAI's cloud infrastructure. This data transmission occurs regardless of which files are actively opened or whether the "Improve the model" setting is disabled.
Simon Willison has compiled the Rust-based Mermaid diagram renderer from the open-sourced Grok CLI into a WebAssembly tool. This allows users to render Mermaid diagrams directly in the browser without needing a server-side environment.