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xAI in Talks with Valor Equity for $12 B to Secure Nvidia GPUs for Grok Data Center
Elon Musk’s AI start-up xAI is working with Valor Equity Partners to secure up to $12 billion in financing for its rapid expansion, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday ...
xAI hired gig workers to boost Grok on a key AI leaderboard and 'beat' Anthropic's Claude in coding
Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.
xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses
But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: It started saying its ...
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
The announcement comes just days after Grok generated antisemitic responses and praised Hitler, which were later deleted.
Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning $200M military deal
A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon ...
xAI gives first public explanation for why Grok called itself 'MechaHitler' and cited Elon Musk's opinions
AI explained why Grok 4 seemed to search for Elon Musk's opinions when asked about some hot-button topics.
Musk unveils Grok 4 update a day after xAI chatbot made antisemitic remarks
Elon Musk on Wednesday unveiled Grok 4, a new version of his X platform's AI chatbot. The update comes a day after the bot ...
xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to ...
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xAI’s ‘Project Skippy’ Used Employee Faces to Teach Grok Human Emotions, Sparking Internal Backlash
Internal documents reveal Elon Musk's xAI used employee facial data in 'Project Skippy' to train its Grok AI, sparking ...