#xAI

AIGoogle launched SynthID.com, letting users upload an image or video to check whether it was made with AI. The tool detects only content created with tools from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Kakao, and it requires signing in with a Google, Apple, or ChatGPT account. Gizmodo's tests found Gemini and Grok gave inaccurate or unsupported answers about AI-generated images, so the results should not be treated as definitive.

AIxAI's Grok Bot 0.68.1 lets bots build slide decks delivered as PowerPoint or Google Slides and send formatted emails directly from a draft card. The update also gives 1:1 chat messages the color of the Bot and speeds up computer use on a 1920x1200 screen.

AISpaceXAI is working on a "Meetings" feature that would let users give Grok Bot links to join Google Meet or Zoom calls. The post suggests use cases such as having daily standups with Grok Bots, but no launch timing or availability is given.

AIThe poster says they already use Grok Bot as a model router, citing last weekend's personal agent livestream. In the demo, Gemini produced an infographic inside Grok Bot, and Claude Opus then checked the content. This follows Elon Musk's announcement that Grok Bot will use the best backend model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, and Suno.

AILauren Tan recommends new Grok Bot users first connect regularly used apps such as calendar, Slack, issue tracker, CRM, and Google Drive so the bot has work context and needed tools. She advises starting with one primary bot before adding specialized bots, which can be designed or chosen from the bot marketplace.

AIElon Musk said Grok Bot will use the best back-end model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, Suno, and other leading APIs. The post notes this could be a major advantage for Grok Bot, though it raises questions about expectations for upcoming Grok models.

AI开始抢入口了，不硬推模型了，Personal agent 这一仗估计是要硬打了 Entry points are being fought over now; no longer pushing models hard. The personal agent battle looks set to be fought head-on.

AIElon Musk said the Grok bot will now use the best back-end model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, Suno, and other leading APIs. The aim is to deliver whatever is most likely to produce the best outcome, not just Grok 4.7 or 4.6.

AIElon Musk says SpaceX will use the best back-end model for each task on Grok Bot, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno, and other leading APIs. Matt Shumer calls this extremely good news for bot users.

AIElon Musk said SpaceX will use the best back-end model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, and Suno, for Grok's responses. The main post from Max Zeff only says "Interesting," so the summary is limited to Musk's stated routing plan.

AI👁️👁️ Note: The main post contains only eye emojis and a link, so the quoted teaser exception applies. The quoted post by @elonmusk states that going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs, whatever is most likely to give the best outcome.

AIGrok Bot will now use the best backend model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno, and other leading APIs. The change is framed as choosing whatever is most likely to produce the best outcome for users.

AIThe xAI Cookbook now has ten runnable Grok API examples across three tracks: real-time voice agents, multimodal generation, and live X data analysis. The author says four voice examples show the same Realtime Voice API across WebSocket, WebRTC, Twilio phone, and mobile transports. The four multimodal examples chain understanding, image generation or editing, video, and TTS, with Grok making creative decisions and Imagine models executing them.

AIX has launched @bot tagging that lets users reply to any post with commands like adding items to a Notion reading list, setting reminders, summarizing threads, or drafting replies. It works in replies, posts, and quotes, and routes requests to the user's Grok Bot.

AIGrok 4.7 is now available on Microsoft Foundry. The post announces the model's availability on the platform without additional details on features, pricing, or benchmarks.

AILauren Tan notes that Grok Bot, which she often discusses in Slack, can also be added to Microsoft Teams. The post links to an x.ai bot plugin page for the integration.

AIxAI has shared a complete cookbook repository on GitHub, linked at The post gives no further details about the repository's contents or purpose.

AIGrok can turn a pasted article or PDF into a podcast where two hosts discuss the content. Each script line is voiced as soon as it is written, so playback begins before the full script is finished. The example code is available in the xai-cookbook repository on GitHub.

AIThe xai-cookbook's x-sentiment-tracker lets users pick a topic, then has Grok run one X search per day over the last 10 days and score each post from -1 to +1. The dashboard displays the sentiment split, day-by-day movement, and the posts behind each score.

AIThe xai-cookbook example uses Grok to generate a Tailwind React component from a dropped-in screenshot. The page then screenshots its own render, overlays it on the original, and feeds the mismatches back so Grok can refine the layout, raising the match from 60% to 77% in one run.

AIA pipeline built with Grok takes a single product photo and produces an eight-second vertical ad, writing the brief, generating three scenes, selecting the best one, animating it, and adding a voiceover. Each run costs about $1.35, and the code is available in the xai-cookbook repository on GitHub.

AIxAI's storyboard-to-film example uses grok-4.7 to plan four shots from a one-line premise, then Grok Imagine draws and animates each one with text-to-speech narration. Every shot is an edit of the first keyframe, which keeps the main character consistent across scenes. The code is available in the xai-cookbook repository on GitHub.

AIARC Prize reports that Grok 4.7's reasoning-token usage correlates with its ARC-AGI-2 public scores. The low setting averaged about 10k tokens per test-pair attempt and scored 25%, while medium through xhigh used 86k to 120k tokens and scored 57.5% to 60%. ARC Prize suggests the lower token usage may help explain the low setting's lower score.

AIARC Prize published full Grok 4.7 results from the xAI model on its public leaderboard. The post links to the leaderboard, a GitHub repository for reproducing the results, and the ARC Prize testing policy.

AIGrok 4.7 scored 1.8% on ARC-AGI-3 in the standard harness, which lets models carry notes between turns, slightly below the 2.1% reported for Grok 4.7 in that setting. In a new provider adapter harness that preserves opaque reasoning and enables auto compaction, the score rose to 10.0%.

AIOn ARC-AGI-2, Grok 4.7's best score is 61.4% at $2.01 per task, down from Grok 4.6's 67.1% at $0.76 per task. The post notes cost per task rose 166% despite identical input and output token pricing.

AIGrok 4.7 used more reasoning tokens on average than Grok 4.6 on ARC-AGI-2 semi-private tasks at medium, high, and xhigh reasoning levels, raising its cost per task. Per test-pair attempt, medium used 136% more tokens, high 125% more, and xhigh 173% more, while low used 27% fewer. A chart compares the two models at xhigh on the 20 public tasks where Grok 4.7 increased token use the most.

AILauren Tan describes using Grok Bot to connect apps like Slack, email, and CRM so it can gather context and decide what work to do. She also explains scheduled and event-triggered routines, plus handing engineering tasks to Cursor cloud agents, with a daily feedback-to-merge loop example.

AIThe author argues that AI data center power demand could reach 50GW by 2030, but grid capacity and high-voltage transformer delivery times of five or more years may not keep pace. The article says AI companies would need to invest in energy infrastructure now, possibly with government backing, to sustain scaling into the 2030s.

AILauren Tan announces that sign-ups for Grok Bot 101 open tomorrow, with a series of live workshops on using the bot to get real work done. The registration link is provided in the post.

AILauren Tan recommends that readers try Grok Bot. A quoted post from @sweatystartup claims Grok Bot outperforms other personal AI tools and suggests linking email, bank accounts, and fantasy football logins.

AIxAI's Grok bot now has a changelog listing every release since launch, covering what's new, improved, and fixed. An RSS feed is also available for programmatic access.

AIElon Musk said SpaceXAI, the AI business unit of SpaceX, will be renamed SpaceXSI, and called SpaceX "a superintelligence company." The shift follows the Trump administration's September 22 directive to replace "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" in federal documents and agencies.

AIKylie Robison commented that the timeline is extremely dumb, reacting to reports that Elon Musk announced SpaceXAI will officially change its name to SpaceXSI. The post itself gives no further details about the rename.

AIThe post argues that in the agent era, AI-driven PR review has become a tool for malicious office politics. Because AI reviews can be used to wear down targets' tokens and positive sentiment, malicious intent is harder to detect than in human review.

AIxAI has published an early version of its TypeScript SDK, available on GitHub at xai-org/xai-sdk-ts and on npm as @xai-official/sdk. The post invites developer feedback as the company continues iterating on it.

AIxAI has released an experimental TypeScript SDK, installable via npm install @xai-official/sdk, that covers text, voice, image, and video in one package. It provides access to the latest Grok models along with server-side tools including real-time X search, web search, code execution, and remote MCP.

AIRamp Router is offering Grok 4.7 at 50% off through October 6, in a partnership with SpaceXAI to lower token costs. Developers can get an API key at router.com to access the discounted model.

AIGrok 4.7 is now available on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, according to the post from SpaceXAI, the account owned by xAI and Grok. The post gives no further details on pricing, context length, or capabilities.

AIGrok Bot can now complete useful tasks without users having to ask, according to the post. A supporting post adds that it can suggest ways to help proactively.