Search “xAI”

Ghodsi says Snowflake hasn't done AI, suggests it buy AI tokens through Databricks

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi responded on X to Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy's challenge, saying Snowflake "isn't doing AI" and suggesting he obtain tokens for models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI through Databricks. Ghodsi also promoted Unity Gateway, which provides model routing, budget management and access control, and said most customers' token usage has risen in recent months while their token spending has fallen by about 30%. Earlier, Ramaswamy asked Databricks to disclose data including growth excluding pass-through inference revenue, free cash flow and profit margins, and responded by saying, "I asked about revenue, I'm not here to contribute revenue."

Nathan Lambert says organizational structure is severely underestimated for building excellent LLMs

On October 28, 2026, Nathan Lambert put forward the view that the importance of organizational structure and team collaboration for building excellent LLMs is severely underestimated. He stated that the value of an efficient organization and team is equivalent to several times the compute, and cited team reorganizations at Llama, xAI and others as examples to explain that after organizational collapse, rebuilding is needed, which is also why he believes latecomers can still catch up. He also said that there are not many unique secrets to building models, and most of the gains come from sustained execution and wise use of compute. Currently, this view is reported by a single source, and there have been no subsequent developments.

Convovo study: When forced to choose, Grok 4.7 and GPT-6.1 Sol show clear partisan leanings

A Convovo study of nearly 500 elections found that when forced to pick between two options via API, SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 recommended Republican candidates in 92% of responses, while OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol recommended Democratic candidates in 97% of responses, with the two agreeing less than 10% of the time. The study also found that Grok frequently cited conservative sources, and that each API request carried roughly 1,240 extra tokens that researchers could neither view nor remove; after disabling web search, GPT's Democratic lean persisted, while Grok's Republican lean disappeared, with Grok declining to choose in 27 of 30 cases. OpenAI responded that the test targeted the developer API and that the prompt explicitly required recommending a candidate, so it does not reflect the ChatGPT consumer experience, where the app would refuse to answer such questions.

Arena.ai says user satisfaction is the biggest gap for AI labs

Arena.ai puts forward a judgment: whether users enjoy collaborating with agents is the biggest gap between AI labs. This judgment is based on Arena's tracking of four Agent Arena signals for the best agents from six labs—Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Kimi, xAI, and DeepSeek—from late June to early October. Among them, on the Praise vs Complaint metric, OpenAI and Anthropic were +35 points above the leaderboard average, while Moonshot, xAI, and DeepSeek ranged between +5 and +13; on Confirmed Success, the average lab's best model rose from -4 to +14 points within three months, with Anthropic leading at +20 with Claude Opus 5.5 (Max); the Bash Recovery gap narrowed from 34 to 16 points, and Steerability from 19 to 11 points. There are currently no further developments.

SpaceX launches Super Intelligence partner network

On October 22, 2026, SpaceX launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence partner network, aimed at companies building products, solutions, and services based on Grok. The program is divided into two categories: Transformation Partners and Marketplace Partners. According to xAI News, more than 130 companies have participated in the program during the early access phase, and the Forward Deployed Engineer certification program has trained engineers at more than 30 organizations. Bain & Company, Databricks, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and others are among the first Launch Partners. There are currently no subsequent development facts.

Trump demands data centers generate their own power and pay dividends to communities

On October 21, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social stating that large new data centers must generate their own power and pay cash "dividends" to their host communities. Related reports noted that the closest existing commitment is the Ratepayer Protection Pledge signed in March of that year by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI, under which signatories pledged to build or purchase generating capacity and bear infrastructure upgrade costs, though experts believe the pledge may not be enforceable at the federal level. Trump said the dividend proposal goes further than that pledge. Reports on October 22 further stated that Trump also demanded that data centers supply surplus power to local communities free of charge or sell it to them, and noted that communities across the United States have continued to protest AI data center projects over rising electricity prices, noise, water shortages, and other issues. There are currently no facts on subsequent developments.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

Cursor announces joining The X Subscription

Cursor announces joining The X Subscription. According to information released by xAI News on October 12, xAI has launched The X Subscription, combining Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium into a single subscription, with plans to make it available globally in the coming days; the paid plans include a Grok model usage pool shared between Grok and Cursor, with each plan offering at least twice the coding usage of the corresponding Cursor plan, and third-party models remain available in Cursor on Premium and above, billed separately at API prices. According to information released by Cursor on October 13, existing Cursor subscribers can keep their current plan or switch to the X Subscription; the paid plans share a single usage pool across Cursor, Grok Build, and other Grok products, with coding usage when using Grok models being twice that of the equivalent Cursor plan, and Premium, Super, and Ultra also include Grok Bot; to make room for more Grok usage, third-party models in Cursor under the new plans are now billed at API pricing. No official launch date for the subscription has been announced yet.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.

English translation is being prepared.