Xai news and analysis

xAI is Elon Musk's AI company and the maker of Grok, its chatbot and family of models. Coverage tracks Grok's API prices, model retirements in tools like GitHub Copilot, outages, government deals and SpaceX's AI compute business.

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Tech Industry

SpaceX Q3 revenue hits $14.6B, Tesla merger review begins

SpaceX's Q3 revenue rose 161% to $14.6 billion, led by $7.56 billion from AI compute. SpaceX and Tesla have formed committees to weigh a merger.

Oct 21, 2026

Illustration of VS Code with the GitHub Copilot Chat model picker open, listing GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Luna, Grok 4.6 and Gemini 3.8 Flash.

Dev Stack

GitHub Copilot retires GPT-5.5, Grok 4.5 and 4 more models

GitHub Copilot drops six models on October 19, 2026, among them GPT-5.5 and Grok 4.5. Pinned names must move to GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Luna or Grok 4.6.

Oct 19, 2026

xAI's bar chart of average cost per task on Artificial Analysis's Big Bench Audio run: Grok Voice 3.0 at $0.025, GPT-Live-1 at $0.030 and GPT-Realtime-2.1 at $0.055.

AI & LLMs

xAI Grok Voice 3.0 ships at $0.08 a minute

xAI's Grok Voice 3.0 speech model costs $0.08 a minute in its Voice Agent API, the same as 2.0, and scores 86.9 on Artificial Analysis's speech index.

Oct 15, 2026

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Tech Industry

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at once

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down within the same window on September 3. Cursor was hit too. No company has confirmed a shared root cause.

Sep 3, 2026

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AI & LLMs

Pentagon adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok to GenAI.mil, with Anthropic absent

The Pentagon put ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil portal on August 31, 2026. Both cleared Impact Level 5. Anthropic is still missing.

Sep 1, 2026

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