I've always been a bit intrigued by Grok because of the name. Grok was coined by Robert Heinlein, one of my very favorite science fiction writers. I fully credit Heinlein with twisting my young brain.

Grok 4 and its reasoning-focused counterpart, Grok 4 Heavy, arrived with an immediate sense of ambition, offering multimodal AI designed to handle coding, logic, and perception tasks. In the initial ...

xAI hired contractors to help Grok climb a popular AI leaderboard with the goal of overtaking Anthropic. Training documents show xAI wanted to "beat Sonnet 3.7 Extended," Anthropic's coding rival. AI ...

Elon Musk-funded xAI is skipping Grok 3.5 and releasing Grok 4 after Independence Day in the United States, and it could be the best model from the company. Grok 3.5 was originally supposed to be a ...

The new line of coding model may be faster but also less honest, as it fares worse there than the already problematic Grok 4. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including ...

An AI model on OpenRouter is called Sonoma Sky Alpha is likely a preview of XAI Grok 4.2. It highlights xAI’s rapid progress in compute power, model diversity, and specialized applications like coding ...

xAI added Grok 4 powered vending machine in its office, in partnership with Andon Labs. XAI Grok 4 beat OpenAI GPT-5 in real world vending machine operation This shows Grok 4’s long-term coherence ...

The big picture: In recent days, the AI community has witnessed the emergence of a new generation of AI models, heralding a significant leap in capabilities and potential applications. Claude 3.7 and ...