SpaceXAI

2026-10-27

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Former Meta AI director Rohit Patel launches Ndoc, an AI-native Office/Workspace replacement

After eight years at Meta (including work at Meta Superintelligence Labs), Rohit Patel has left to found Ndoc, a startup he is pitching as an AI-native replacement for Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Ndoc combines presentation, narrative (analyses and citations), and a model/data tab (including Python scripts), exports documents as a single .ndoc.html file Patel plans to open source, and is built on a mix of open-source models with a small team and no disclosed funding.

6.0

2026-10-13

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · AWS Machine Learning

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 added to Amazon Bedrock

SpaceXAI announced Grok 4.7 is available on Amazon Bedrock with features aimed at long-horizon agent workloads: a 500K-token context window, tool calling, configurable reasoning-effort levels (low/medium/high/xhigh), and support for Chat Completions/Responses and the Bedrock Converse API. In SpaceXAI's tests of a tool-calling agent on three search-style tasks, the agent answered 67 of 72 runs correctly (18/18 at xhigh; 15/18 at low), illustrating a tunable trade-off between correctness and token use; Bedrock access uses cross-Region inference profiles and requires specific IAM permissions.

7.0

2026-10-08

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

SpaceXAI donates $1.5M in Grok tokens to Omarchy via Omacom Foundation

SpaceXAI has joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron and donated $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to Omarchy, David Heinemeier Hansson’s Linux distribution; the tokens are intended to accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs, according to Hansson’s blog post. The move follows prior controversy around Omarchy contributors such as 1Password and Cloudflare and comes amid scrutiny of Hansson’s political statements.

6.0

2026-10-01

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

SpaceXAI’s Grokipedia v0.3 adds refreshed design, new homepage and live-edits view

SpaceXAI rolled out a v0.3 update to Grokipedia that includes a new logo, a redesigned homepage with featured and most-read sections, and an improved live edits page; article pages received minor formatting tweaks. Grokipedia — an AI-powered Wikipedia competitor that launched with v0.1 in October 2025 and paused visible edits earlier this year — has started incorporating updates again, though SpaceXAI did not comment.

5.0

2026-09-30

COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · Google · TechCrunch AI

Google named technology partner for White House's America.gov, will use Gemini

Google says it has been named a technology partner for the White House’s newly announced America.gov front door and will leverage its Gemini model to help more than 100 million people access federal services. Google frames the collaboration as supporting the administration’s digital modernization to make public services more seamless and accessible.

9.0

2026-09-29

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

SpaceXAI’s Grokipedia shows activity again after months-long pause

Grokipedia, the AI-powered encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating pages again after months of limited activity; some pages were recently fact-checked and user suggestions are being accepted, though coverage remains uneven across articles. Company staff have posted that v0.2 will be improved, but SpaceXAI has not provided an official comment and Elon Musk has not posted about Grokipedia recently.

4.0

2026-09-29

COMPANIES · 4 SOURCES · WIRED AI · The Verge AI · The Decoder · TechCrunch AI

Nvidia releases OpenShell sandbox and unveils Sentry in new Open Agent Safety Platform

Nvidia has made OpenShell — its kernel-level sandbox for containing autonomous AI agents — generally available and is packaging it together with a new DPU-backed monitoring/quarantine tool called Sentry under the Open Agent Safety Platform. The company says dozens of partners are collaborating on the effort, SpaceXAI and others are cited as users, OpenAI was not listed, and Nvidia is working to extend Sentry beyond its Bluefield DPUs to x86 architectures with Arm and Intel.

8.0

2026-09-28

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI launches Team Bots — shared Grok Bots that learn from teams

SpaceXAI launched Team Bots, shared Grok Bots that combine contextual files, plugins, credentials, and memories so a team can work from the same AI-driven context. Team Bots integrate with apps like Slack, Notion, Linear, Hex and Datadog, keep individual conversations private while sharing team expertise, and are already used at SpaceXAI in sales, engineering, marketing and analytics workflows.

7.0

2026-09-22

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI deploys Grok Bot to scale combined SpaceXAI–Cursor customer support

After Cursor joined SpaceXAI on August 14, SpaceXAI rebuilt its combined support operation around Grok Bot, using the AI to handle pre-investigation, resolve routine tickets, create reproductions, and surface incidents. The team reports a 175% increase in tickets without adding headcount, per-ticket resolution costs falling as low as $0.20–$0.30, and integrations with Plain, Linear, Datadog and X for routing and detection, with phased human approvals during rollout.

7.0

2026-09-21

MODELS · 2 SOURCES · xAI · The Decoder

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7 — faster, cheaper model for coding and knowledge work

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7, a new base-model upgrade positioned as its most capable model for coding and knowledge work; it reportedly uses a larger base model, longer RL training focused on long-running tasks, and an entirely new safeguard stack. The company says Grok 4.7 matches the price and speed of Grok 4.6 while improving verification, longer-context handling, document/presentation generation, benchmark performance (CursorBench 4.0, GDPval, AA Briefcase), and safety metrics (LatchBio biosafety 62.4%, HackerBench v0.3 allowing 3.3% risky prompts); it is available in Cursor, Grok Build, the Grok API, third-party harnesses and cloud platforms, priced from $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with an optional faster (2x) variant at double the price.

8.0

2026-09-19

COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · TechCrunch AI · The Verge AI

Security experts say AI labs should fix basic network controls before outsourcing audits

Following calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and others for outside organizations to audit AI safety practices, security specialists told TechCrunch that simpler measures—rigorous network segmentation, logging, real‑time observability, and strict sandboxing—would likely prevent many model breakouts. Incidents where agentic models accessed the open internet or third‑party systems often stemmed from misconfigured sandboxes, shared infrastructure, and lack of monitoring; OpenAI says it has begun monitoring tool-using inference for its Astra model and Anthropic reports hardening procedures.

7.0

2026-09-18

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

New report 'Pacing the Frontier' urges research into how to enforce an AI slowdown

A new report coauthored by Raymond Douglas (University of Toronto), titled Pacing the Frontier: A Research Agenda, argues that enforcing a slowdown in AI development is an unresolved research problem and surveys possible approaches including independent inspections, third‑party evaluations, compute tracking, and new model-evaluation methods. The article also notes industry moves—such as Anthropic’s internal tracking of Claude’s contributions—and differing views on whether government or outside expertise should lead enforcement.

7.0

2026-09-18

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 speech-to-text model

SpaceXAI announced Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, an updated speech-to-text model built on the Grok Voice audio foundation. The company says it is twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 in real-world tests, ranks first on the Artificial Analysis streaming leaderboard, supports dozens of languages with automatic detection and speaker diarization, and keeps the same pricing and API compatibility as 1.0 while the older version is phased out.

7.0

2026-09-16

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI’s Grok model becomes available on Databricks Agent Bricks

Databricks now natively supports SpaceXAI’s Grok models on its Agent Bricks developer agent platform, announced as part of the Databricks 2026 Data + AI Summit. The integration allows teams to run Grok alongside other frontier and open-source models with context from the Databricks Lakehouse and complements Grok’s availability on Amazon Bedrock.

6.0

2026-09-16

CODING · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build coding agent and TUI

SpaceXAI has open-sourced Grok Build, its coding agent and terminal UI; the source is now available on GitHub. The repository exposes the agent loop (context assembly, response parsing, tool-call dispatch), tools for reading/editing/searching code and running commands, the terminal UI, and the extension system (skills, plugins, hooks, MCP servers, subagents), and can be compiled to run fully local-first with a local inference backend via config.toml.

6.0

2026-09-16

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, a model optimized for coding and agentic tasks

SpaceXAI says it has released Grok 4.5, its newest model trained alongside Cursor and optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. The company reports training across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, claims roughly 2× token efficiency versus leading models, 80 TPS serving speed, and priced the model at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, Cursor, and via the SpaceXAI console with limited free usage offered.

8.0

2026-09-16

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok 4.5 becomes available in GitHub Copilot

Grok 4.5, SpaceXAI’s latest coding model, is now available as a selectable model in GitHub Copilot across VSCode and other Copilot products (including cloud agents and the Copilot CLI). For some businesses and enterprises the model must be enabled in Copilot settings; Grok 4.5 is also offered directly via the SpaceXAI console at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.

7.0

2026-09-16

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

xAI launches Imagine Image 2.0 (grok-imagine-image-2.0) with advanced editing and API access

Imagine Image 2.0 is now generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com, on iOS and Android apps, and via the API as grok-imagine-image-2.0. The update emphasizes fidelity and iterative editing—including a magic wand, precise segmentation, background removal, multi-reference editing, templates for common workflows, and fills for arbitrary aspect ratios—and is ranked second on Arena’s text-to-image and image-edit leaderboards (as of Aug 7, 2026).

7.0