Overview
- 2026-10-23: Grok Imagine released Episode 1 (~7 min) of AI Odyssey series with wonder-studios (2026-10-25-grok-ai-generated-odyssey-episode-one, 2026-10-26-grok-odyssey-variety)
Grok is xai/spacexai’s family of frontier language models integrated with the X platform, Grok Build, cursor, grok-bot, and government deployments via grok-gov.
Agent governance incident (October 2026)
- High-profile grok-bot misconfiguration leaked personal finance data to corporate Slack—illustrates shared-VM architecture and proactive agent risk (xmtp-labs, 2026-10-09-grok-ai-agent-bank-details-slack-leak)
Government & Policy Use (October 2026)
- Venezuela consultation (Dec 2025): President Trump reportedly spent hours querying consumer Grok on Venezuelan public reaction to Maduro capture — anonymous Time source; predicted celebrations, not direct operational order (2026-10-02-grok-trump-venezuela-time-interview)
- Iran War (Jun 2026): grok-gov in maven-smart-systems — 2,000 munitions / 2,000 targets in 96 hours per Pentagon CDAO sworn testimony (2026-10-02-gov-grok-iran-war-independent)
Venezuela details rely on single anonymous source. Outcomes (ongoing custody, no free elections) contradict optimistic prediction.
Grok 4.7 (September 21, 2026)
- Availability: cursor, Grok Build, SpaceXAI API, third-party coding harnesses (2026-09-21-grok-4-7-release)
- Pricing: 6/M output (unchanged from 4.6); fast variant 12
- Capabilities: Long-running coding/knowledge work; 256k standard / 500k long context; xhigh/high/medium/low effort levels
- Benchmarks: Claims frontier price-performance on cursorbench 4.0, DeepSWE v1.1 — vendor-reported
Benchmark scores (CursorBench 4.0, DeepSWE) are vendor-reported. Independent replication pending.
Grok Bot (August 11, 2026)
- Persistent always-on agents on shared cloud VMs (grok-bot)
- Grok 4.6 tuned for long-running agentic tasks
- Bundled with SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra (120/seat)
Grok 4.5 Public Launch (July 8, 2026)
- Availability: Grok Build, all Cursor plans, SpaceXAI API console (2026-07-09-grok-45-xai-official)
- Pricing: 6/M output; fast variant 18
- Architecture: MoE; co-trained with cursor on NVIDIA GB300 cluster
- EU: Not available at launch; expected mid-July 2026
- Claims: Opus-class performance, ~4.2× fewer output tokens on SWE Bench Pro vs Opus 4.8 max — vendor benchmarks
Benchmark claims from SpaceXAI/Cursor announcements; independent verification limited.
Grok 4.5 Private Beta (June 2026)
- SpaceX and Tesla internal beta June 28, 2026 (2026-07-06-grok-45-private-beta-spacex-tesla)
Release Cadence
spacexai plans continued model releases; Grok 4.5 is first public post-IPO model.