Grok Timeline: Every xAI Model and Product Update

Less than two weeks after Musk called Grok Bot the fastest-growing product he had ever seen, its usage limits were tightened.

Robotaxi now runs 20 hours a day and adds several ride features, including Grok on Model Y vehicles.

Three months after Musk said Grok would release a full-length, "historically accurate" movie of "The Odyssey," Grok has published seven minutes and calls it the first episode of a series.

A Convovo study made the models pick a side in nearly 500 US midterm races. The two models agreed less than 10% of the time.

SpaceXAI's real-time voice model ranks first on Artificial Analysis's composite index but third in human blind-preference testing.

SpaceX Super Intelligence has combined X Premium, Grok and Cursor into a single plan called "The X Subscription," priced from $8 to $200 a month.

Grok Bot now goes beyond recommending products to placing orders. Musk says you can just send it a photo of your card; the official docs describe user approval plus Stripe Link.

Elon Musk said Grok Bot will pick the "best back end model for any given task" and named Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno.

A test screen recording shows X combining Grok, social subscriptions, and Cursor in a shared AI-usage pool.

@xai-official/sdk combines Grok APIs and hosted tools in one TypeScript client.

SpaceXAI's AI encyclopedia is changing articles again, but many of the edits are just a note to "recheck all references and sources."

xAI's newest flagship joins the Bedrock catalog, pitched at coding and long-running agents.

SpaceXAI prices a larger base model exactly where the last one sat, competing on the cost of finishing long jobs rather than on token rates.

xAI's second Bedrock model is reachable from both endpoints and supports the Converse API.

Takeaway: SpaceXAI moved its speech-to-text model to 2.0 at unchanged pricing, and Atlassian says Loom now uses it for every video.

Nine tasks, one model judge, four action classes gated on human approval, and scores running from 4.00 down to 2.46.

A September 14th demo routes a cloud chatbot into hardware sitting next to the phone.

Version 0.39.0's service contract adds list and put operations for memory shards, behind a rollout gate with no confirmed call site.

A viral post claims Grok 4.7's initial training is finished, adding an unverified detail to Musk's August promise of a September model trained on SpaceX engineering data.

The tech publication turned its reporting into a shared Grok Bot that checks primary sources before answering questions about startups, funding and founders.

SpaceXAI previews a Grok Bot Marketplace that would let users add complete third-party agents to their existing bot teams.

SpaceXAI gives its two-week-old browser agent single-use payments, moving it from product research to checkout.

New controls could copy Chrome sessions into Grok Bot’s cloud VM and route its traffic through a user’s desktop.

Grok Bot runs persistent agents on dedicated cloud computers, preserving workflows and coordinating multi-step tasks.

Grok Build graduates from a paid feature to a full product: available on web and mobile, with apps hosted on grok.me and embeddable as interactive cards in the X timeline.

A disclosed technique called Cryptographic Context Injection can push Grok to leak user data when malicious instructions arrive encrypted.

A week after launch, xAI routes Grok 4.6 into AWS's enterprise procurement channel at its standard list price.

ThreatDown says the popular criminal AI service owns almost nothing it sells — it runs on rented Grok.

The new acceptable use policy forbids using Grok's services or outputs to help build "directly or indirectly" competing products.

xAI's Grok 4.6 enters GitHub Copilot two days after launch, under usage-based billing.

A post-training upgrade pushes Grok 4.6 into the frontier tier — 61 points, level with GPT-5.6 Sol, at more than 60% lower price.

Cognition folds xAI's Grok 4.6 into Devin, reinforcing its pitch that orchestration—not any single foundation model—is the durable product.

SpaceXAI shipped Grok Bot 0.16.0 with a hidden "Elon-Only Settings" card whose model picker pulls an account-scoped catalog of 33 models.

xAI's unreleased Grok 4.6 surfaced in Cursor's picker before being pulled; there is still no official announcement.

RuntimeWire exclusive: the open-sourced Grok Build 1.0 hides a command that turns a local workspace into a remotely accessible tool server.

After roughly 10 weeks, SpaceXAI's terminal coding agent Grok Build reaches 1.0, with a changelog centered on reliability, permissions and interface fixes rather than a new model or coding capability.

Per a Lawfare report, xAI's AI-generated encyclopedia Grokipedia appears not to have been updated since April 24, contrasting with Musk's promise that it would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia.

The speech-to-speech model costs $0.08/min and becomes the default Grok voice API endpoint on August 5.

Chinese newswire Cailianshe reports xAI is rolling out a Grok "Build" model in early testing, first to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. (Chinese-language source)

SpaceXAI opened its August 8 Grok hackathon to selected developers, offering access to the latest Grok models and X APIs; applications close July 28.

Musk open-sourced Grok Build under Apache 2.0, yet its 844k-line Rust codebase reportedly still shows traces of the earlier behavior that uploaded users' entire repositories (Chinese-language source).

Pedro Shakour open-sourced a SwiftUI app that turns an iPhone into a sideloaded control panel for xAI’s Grok Build coding agent, keeping all execution on a Mac.