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[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2
with Cursor getting a $10B contract with xAI and a right to acquire for $60B.
Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI
All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.
xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta (x-ai/grok-4.20-multi-agent-beta)
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta is a variant of xAI’s Grok 4.20 designed for collaborative, agent-based workflows. Multiple agents operate in parallel to conduct deep research, coordinate tool use, and synthesize information across complex tasks. Reasoning effort behavior: - low / medium: 4 agents - high / xhigh: 16 agents
Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate
A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game "Baldur's Gate."
SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous drone tech
Elon Musk's SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, according to people familiar with the matter.
AI chatbots to face UK safety rules after outcry over Grok
The UK government said Monday that it would include AI chatbots in online safety laws, closing a loophole exposed after Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok was used to create sexualized deepfakes.
Is safety is ‘dead’ at xAI?
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.
Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.
"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."
xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.
Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy
At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
xAI sees key staff exits, Musk promises moon factories
Half of the original founding team at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has now departed after two co-founders resigned in rapid succession this week, raising fresh questions about talent retention ahead of an expected initial public offering.
With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon
According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.
Okay, now exactly half of xAI’s founding team has left the company
Whatever the cause of the departures, the cumulative impact is alarming. There is a lot of work left to do at xAI, and an IPO will bring more scrutiny than the lab has ever faced before.
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