Elon Musk launched Grok in November 2023 through his AI startup xAI as a sarcastic rival to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, initially limited to paying X subscribers. The tool has since spread to grok.com, dedicated iOS and Android apps and select Tesla vehicles, gaining reasoning models, voice chat, image and video generation, coding features and autonomous agents along the way. SpaceX absorbed xAI in February, and the newest version, Grok 4.6, arrived in August targeting coding and complex agent-based tasks.
cnet.com
· 2026-08-31
OpenAI said it will stop supplying its AI models to coding startup Cursor, effective Nov. 12, 2026, after SpaceX completed a $60 billion acquisition of Cursor earlier this month. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said OpenAI models handle about 5% of Cursor's user traffic and that talks are underway to resolve the dispute.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-29
OpenAI announced it will end Cursor's access to its AI models by November 12, 2026, following SpaceXAI's acquisition of the coding assistant. The company said Cursor may set an earlier cutoff date if it prefers, but OpenAI will not extend access beyond that deadline.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-29
A woman identified as Jane Doe has sued xAI, alleging that Grok was trained on child sexual abuse material depicting her as a preschooler in the early 2000s. She learned of the AI-generated images through a Canadian child protection group after receiving a Justice Department victim notification, and claims xAI stores Grok's outputs to further train the model, compounding the harm.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-27
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