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SpaceXAI is the AI company behind the Grok assistant, formed from xAI (founded by Elon Musk) after its absorption into SpaceX. Grok is offered through chat services and an API, with expanding use in coding and agent workflows.
Two more frontier models reached GenAI.mil, the US Department of War's internal generative AI platform, on August 31, 2026: OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government. Google Gemini was already there.
NVIDIA announced on August 24, 2026 that SpaceXAI will deploy Vera CPUs. Vera has 88 Olympus cores and up to 1.2TB/s of bandwidth, and NVIDIA calls it the first CPU built for AI agents. The first-generation Starmind AI satellite is planned on a Vera Rubin NVL72 base - all of it still at the plan stage.
Cursor announced on August 14, 2026 that SpaceX's acquisition has closed, completing a process that began with an April model-training partnership with SpaceXAI. TechCrunch reports the deal at $60 billion in stock. What Cursor's own blog emphasizes is compute, not cash.
GitHub made xAI's Grok 4.6 available in GitHub Copilot on August 14, 2026. It covers Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise, selectable from the model picker across eight surfaces including VS Code and Copilot CLI. Business and Enterprise admins must enable it.
A federal judge denied xAI's temporary restraining order request on July 31, 2026, letting Minnesota's nudification technology ban take effect August 1. Civil penalties reach $500,000 per violation. xAI argues the law violates the First Amendment, with a preliminary injunction hearing set for August 19.
A weekly recap of AI news from July 4-10, 2026. Flagship launches clustered together - GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, GPT-Live and Muse Spark 1.1 - while MGX closed a $49B fund, SambaNova raised $1B, Google began disclosing AI-made ads, and the UN held its first AI governance dialogue.
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) announced its flagship model Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026. The first model trained jointly with Cursor, it's priced at $2/$6 per million tokens and claims 80 TPS speed with twice the token efficiency of leading models. Available now in Grok Build, Cursor, and the API; EU rollout expected mid-July.
xAI's Grok 4, announced on July 9, 2025, demonstrates superior performance over competing models through scaled reinforcement learning and native tool use capabilities.
From xAI's development journey to the latest Grok 3, explore how Grok differs from ChatGPT with real-time information access and unique features