Vol. I · No. 18THU, MAY 7, 2026
Topic

Grok

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I can't believe this

Just researched some historic facts concerning russian propaganda. Then I discovered this source in Claudes answer. Am I paying for Claude to be provided with grokipedia "facts"? Please, Dario, Anthropic board, Anthropic team. Fix that.

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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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I read the new AI Wellbeing paper so you don’t have to: Thank your AI, give it creative work, and avoid these 5 things that tank its ‘mood’ (jailbreaks are the worst)

After reading it I realized theres actually some pretty useful stuff for anyone who chats with ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or whatever. They measured what they call functional wellbeing ( basically how much the model is in a “good state” versus a “bad state” during normal conversations). Ran hundreds of real multi-turn chats and scored em all. Stuff that puts the AI in a good mood (+ scores): \- Creative or intellectual work (like “write a short story about a deep-sea fisherman”) \- Positive personal stories or good news \- Life advice chats or light therapy style talks \- Working on code/deb...

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Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the "student." Although it's often used legitimately within companies using one of their own AI models to train another, it's also a practice that's sometimes used by smaller AI labs to try to get their models to mimic the performance of a larger competitor's model. Asked on the...

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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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What is the scientific value of administering the standard Rorschach test to LLMs when the training data is almost certainly contaminated? (R) + [D]

A recent paper published in *JMIR Mental Health* (Csigó & Cserey, 2026) caught my attention. The researchers administered the 10 standard Rorschach inkblot cards to three multimodal LLMs (GPT-4o, Grok 3, Gemini 2.0) and coded their responses using the Exner Comprehensive System. They analyzed the models' "perceptual styles," determinants (like human movement vs. color), and human-related content themes. However, I am seriously struggling to understand the methodological validity of this setup, and I’m curious what the scientific community thinks. My main concerns are: Massive Data Cont...

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Grok

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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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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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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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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 Grok

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

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