xAI

5 entries between January 2026 and September 2026, 8 releases.

Every entry

  1. White House signs voluntary super-intelligence accord with AI firms

    Trump and six AI executives signed the voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which Trump called morally binding. It commits signatories to internal capability controls, an empowered safety team, an independent external auditor and a board committee.

  2. xAI releases Grok 4.7

    On 21 September 2026 xAI, now branded SpaceXAI, released Grok 4.7, the latest iteration of its frontier model, continuing its weekly-scale release pace.

  3. The last of xAI’s founding team leaves the company

    Ross Nordeen, the last of xAI’s original co-founders still at the company, left on 28 March 2026. Co-founders Guodong Zhang and Zihang Dai had departed earlier in the month, roughly seven weeks after SpaceX completed its all-stock acquisition of xAI.

  4. Indonesia lifts its Grok ban as US groups seek a federal one

    Indonesia conditionally lifted its ban on xAI’s Grok on 1 February 2026 after X gave written assurances on safety. The next day a coalition including Public Citizen and the Consumer Federation of America asked the US government to suspend Grok’s use in federal agencies.

  5. xAI restricts Grok image editing after manipulated images spread

    xAI limited Grok’s image-editing tools to paid subscribers on 9 January 2026 after manipulated images of women, and in some cases apparent minors, in revealing clothing spread on X. On 14 January it blocked edits placing real people in revealing clothing.

Releases

Date Release Maker Family Kind What it was
2026
Grok 4.7 xAI Grok model Latest iteration of the frontier model, continuing a weekly-scale release pace.
Grok 4.6 xAI Grok model Flagship model with a 500,000-token context window, at $2 and $6 per million tokens.
Grok 4.5 xAI Grok model Released through Grok Build, the Cursor editor and the xAI API.
Grok Build xAI Grok product, open weights Open-sourced under the Apache License after a data-handling controversy.
Grok Build (SWE-bench update) xAI Grok product Scored 70.8% on SWE-bench Verified.
2025
Grok Imagine xAI Grok product Image and video generation tool released with a permissive “spicy mode.”
Grok 4 xAI Grok model Generalist and code-specialized variants with a 256,000-token context window.
Grok 3 xAI Grok model Reasoning model with a “DeepSearch” agent mode, trained on the Colossus supercluster.