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December 23, 2024

xAI raises $6B Series C

We are partnering with A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Vy Capital, amongst others.

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December 12, 2024

Bringing Grok to Everyone

Grok is now faster, sharper, and has improved multilingual support. It is available to everyone on the 𝕏 platform.

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December 9, 2024

Grok Image Generation Release

We are updating Grok's capabilities with a new autoregressive image generation model, code-named Aurora, available on the 𝕏 platform.

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November 4, 2024

API Public Beta

Starting today, developers can build on our Grok foundation models using our newly released API. We will run a public beta program until the end of 2024 during which everyone will get $25 of free API credits per month.

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August 13, 2024

Grok-2 Beta Release

Grok-2 is our frontier language model with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. This release includes two members of the Grok family: Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. Both models are now being released to Grok users on the 𝕏 platform.

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May 26, 2024

Series B Funding Round

xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.

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April 12, 2024

Grok-1.5 Vision Preview

Connecting the digital and physical worlds with our first multimodal model.

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March 28, 2024

Announcing Grok-1.5

Grok-1.5 comes with improved reasoning capabilities and a context length of 128,000 tokens. Available on 𝕏 soon.

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March 17, 2024

Open Release of Grok-1

We are releasing the weights and architecture of our 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1.

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November 6, 2023

Announcing PromptIDE

IDE for prompt engineering and interpretability research. Write complex prompts in Python and share them with the community.

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November 3, 2023

Announcing Grok

Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It is intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!