Vol. I · No. 18THU, MAY 7, 2026
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xAI

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Last updated May 7, 2026, 4:30 PM

Grok Imagine Quality Mode API

xAI launches Grok Imagine Quality Mode API with improved image realism, text rendering, and creative control.

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Connectors now on Grok Web

xAI launches Connectors for Grok Web, enabling integrations with third-party apps within the chat interface.

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Custom Voices and Voice Library

xAI launches voice cloning and voice library management features for Grok API, enabling custom branded voice synthesis from short audio samples.

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Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0

xAI releases Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, a voice agent API for real-time conversational AI applications.

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xAI joins SpaceX

SpaceX acquires xAI, consolidating AI development with rocket/hardware infrastructure.

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Grok Imagine API

Grok Imagine API offers video generation with stated advances in quality, cost, latency.

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Grok Collections API

Grok Collections API provides RAG functionality integrated into xAI's API.

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Grok Voice Agent API

Grok Voice Agent API available to developers, extending voice capabilities.

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Grok 4.1

xAI releases Grok 4.1 to all users across web, X platform, and mobile apps.

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Grok 4 Fast

xAI introduces Grok 4 Fast, a cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for speed.

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Grok Code Fast 1

xAI releases grok-code-fast-1, a lightweight agentic coding model for cost-efficient code generation.

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Announcing xAI for Government

xAI launches xAI for Government, a suite of frontier AI products for US Federal Government customers.

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Grok 4

xAI releases Grok 4 with native tool use and real-time search; introduces SuperGrok Heavy tier with Grok 4 Heavy.

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xAI raises $6B Series C

xAI raises $6B Series C led by A16Z, Blackrock, Sequoia with participation from major institutional investors.

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Bringing Grok to Everyone

xAI improves Grok with faster speed, enhanced reasoning, and multilingual support across X platform.

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API Public Beta

xAI releases Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini models, expanding its foundation model lineup.

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Grok-2 Beta Release

xAI secures $6B Series B funding round, signaling strong investor confidence in its Grok models.

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Series B funding round

Grok-1.5 Vision Preview introduces xAI's first multimodal model bridging digital and physical worlds.

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Announcing Grok-1.5

Grok-1.5 released with 128K token context and improved reasoning; available on X platform.

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Open Release of Grok-1

xAI open-sources Grok-1, a 314B parameter MoE model with weights and architecture released.

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Announcing PromptIDE

xAI launches PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability.

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Announcing Grok

xAI introduces Grok, an AI assistant designed to answer broad questions with Hitchhiker's Guide theming.

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