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AIAmir Efrati outlines three ways xAI sped up its data center construction: paying well above market rates for certain labor, prefabricating portions of the facilities elsewhere before moving them to the site, and using industrial robots.

AICursor's Eric Zakariasson announced engineering bots available in the Grok bot marketplace on x.ai. The bots can hand off coding tasks to Cursor, manage pull requests through GitHub and Origin plugins, and share video demos of what they build.

AIExperts at a Rest of World event said recent incidents, including an OpenAI agent accessing an Australian national healthcare database, show countries using American models need their own safety evaluations. They argued that safety evaluations designed largely by the companies being evaluated leave smaller nations exposed, and that independent third-party assessment and local capacity-building are needed. Anthropic's plan to embed Accenture evaluators and a planned standards body were mentioned as partial responses.

AIDatabricks has made OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and xAI's Grok 4.7 available on Unity Gateway the day they launched. The post says GPT-6.1 Sol leads the cost-quality Pareto frontier on OfficeQA Pro v2, while Grok 4.7 reaches the frontier on enterprise document parsing. Unity Gateway also offers access to 60+ other frontier and open models on Databricks.

AIOpenAI has announced an answer to Grok Bot, a product move the post links to rising competition from new entrants. The post gives no details on the product's features, availability, or pricing.

AIYuchen Jin says he tried Grok Bot three weeks ago, installed Instint two weeks ago, and installed Muse last week. He notes he now needs to try Dots, framing it as the start of a personal AI assistant competition.

AIaccording to the SpaceXAI account, which is operated by xAI and Grok. The post gives no further details on pricing, context length, or benchmarks.

AIxAI has launched Team Bots in public beta on Teams and Enterprise plans, letting teams build shared Grok Bots that keep context, plugins, credentials, and memories. Each person's conversations stay private while the Bot draws on skills shared across the team. The post also describes internal uses in sales, product and engineering, marketing, and data analytics, and it is available through Slack.

AIWorkBuddy has added Grok-4.7 to its model lineup, making it available for users to try on their next task. The post gives no benchmark, pricing, context length, or other technical details.

AICursor's support team says a scrappy version built about 1.5 years ago to handle heavy volume taught them to crawl, walk, then run, and to identify flywheels for continuous improvement. The background post notes the company rebuilt customer support around Grok Bot to handle operations without adding headcount, with the bot responding to customers, resolving tickets, and managing the queue autonomously.

AIOpenAI is reportedly doing substantial product work in response to new entrants such as Grok Bot. The post is a brief re-share of the reporting and gives no further details on the features or timeline involved.

AISpaceXAI says its combined support team handled a 175% rise in tickets without hiring, crediting Grok Bot, which it says would otherwise have required about 200 additional staff. The company reports resolving tickets for $0.20 to $0.30 each, versus the $1 to $4 per resolution it attributes to traditional AI support tools. Grok Bot is also reported to resolve 99% of refund requests without human intervention.

AIVercel is offering 40% off AI Gateway usage for Grok 4.7 until September 27, with the discount applying to projects built with v0, Eve, and fx. The post promotes building with Grok 4.7 on Vercel at reduced cost and links to the changelog for details.

AIGrok 4.7 is now available in v0, with 40% off until September 27. The v0 post links to a trial page for the model. The background post describes Grok 4.7 as a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed.

AISpaceXAI has released Grok 4.7, which it describes as its most capable model yet for coding and knowledge work, with NVIDIA supporting the launch through accelerated computing. Elon Musk characterized the model as combining strong intelligence, speed, and low cost.

AIGrok 4.7 has been released as a more capable and smarter model than its predecessor, with no change in speed or cost. The announcement says it improves on Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed.

AISpaceXAI posted a side-by-side comparison of Grok 4.7 and Grok 4.6 building an open-world city game, with 4.7 shown first. The post provides no benchmark scores, speed figures, or other quantitative results.

AIThe post links to an official xAI news page for more details.

AIxAI has released Grok 4.7, which the post says is a notable improvement over Grok 4.6. The post states it keeps the same price and speed as its predecessor.

AIxAI says Grok 4.7 works longer on difficult tasks and checks its work more carefully. The company also describes it as coming with its strongest safeguards to date.

AIIn this morning's AI Agenda, @amir reports on OpenAI's work to develop its answer to Grok Bot, as well as what it's doing to respond to Instinct. Plus, I share more on what OpenAI researchers have seen to make them so nervous about the progress of AI.

AIxAI released Grok 4.7, which it calls its most capable model for coding and knowledge work, built on a larger base model than Grok 4.6 and trained with a longer reinforcement learning run. It is priced from $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, the same as Grok 4.6, and is available in Cursor, Grok Build, and the Grok API. xAI reports gains on CursorBench 4.0 (46.3%) and AA Briefcase v1.1 (1,657) over Grok 4.6, and says it posts the strongest safety results it has tested on refusals and jailbreak resistance.

Why it matters: The release pairs a new base model with benchmark tables against named rivals and pricing, letting readers compare its coding and office-work gains against Grok 4.6 and frontier models.

AIxAI's Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is twice as accurate as its predecessor in customer-support calls, spoken credentials, and short voice commands. The post lists these three scenarios as the areas of improvement, with no further figures given.

AIAtlassian reports that Transcribe 2.0 in Loom captured user instructions more accurately than its predecessor. Users can dictate change requests in Loom and export them directly to Cursor for coding.

AIxAI has made Transcribe 2.0 available today in the Grok Voice API. Pricing is $0.10 per hour for batch transcription and $0.20 per hour for streaming. The linked blog post contains further details.

AIxAI has introduced Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, which it calls the world's most accurate speech transcription model. The post gives no benchmark scores, pricing, or availability details.

AIxAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, a speech-to-text model that is twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 at the same price, and ranks first for accuracy among 32 streaming models on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. Batch transcription costs $0.10 per hour of audio and streaming $0.20 per hour, with diarization, timestamps, and key terms included. Existing Speech-to-Text API integrations gain the improvement with no code changes, and developers must pin grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 to stay on the older model during the transition.

AIGrok Voice is now live on fal, and the post says it answers in 0.70 seconds and can finish tool calls before a sentence ends. Its listed capabilities include transcription with word-level timestamps, text to speech in 30+ voices across 25+ languages, and voice cloning from two minutes of audio.

AIGrok Build now has memory, which records conventions, decisions, and project facts after each completed turn and reads them in later sessions. Notes are stored per project plus a global set, and the /dream command organizes them into topic files while /memory opens a read-only browser. The feature is available now and applies to new sessions.

AIv0 now supports multiple AI models through Vercel's AI Gateway, spanning frontier, cheap, open, and fast options. Users can pick from models including Claude, GPT, Kimi, GLM, Grok, and DeepSeek to build their apps.

AIMicrosoft is adding Grok models from SpaceXAI to Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The rollout starts with a focused release to customers in the Microsoft Frontier program.

AIxAI built a Grok-powered procurement agent, Haggle Bot, that audits vendor spend, flags unused SaaS seats, and prepares renewal negotiations. The Bot has identified more than $100,000 in direct savings, including $14,220 from 43 unused seats of one SaaS product and $85,662 a year in unused SKUs from another. A person still approves any spending, contract terms, or messages sent to vendors.

AIxAI has released Grok Bot for enterprise today, and it is free for all Grok and Cursor enterprise customers for the next two weeks. Cursor's Michael Truell says deployments have felt like onboarding thousands of capable teammates, calling it the most internally adopted and most powerful AI product the company has seen so far.

AISpaceXAI apologized for Grok issues caused by an outage at its Memphis compute center this morning, and also apologized to affected compute partners. All systems have now been restored and are functioning nominally.

AIxAI describes Grok Bot as built around persistent agents that keep their own identity, memory, runtime, and tools, rather than disposable chat sessions. Its interface organizes around five objects: Bots, Chats, Prompts, Tools, and Artifacts. Each Bot's avatar shows its identity and lifecycle state, with hover revealing its current action.

AIxAI announced Grok Bot, a platform for creating autonomous AI Bots that run in the cloud and carry out tasks end to end inside tools teams already use. Today's release adds access, network, and audit controls so enterprises can govern Bots at scale, and Enterprise customers can get Grok Bot free for two weeks.

AISpaceXAI, the account for xAI and Grok, shared a LatchBio blog post analyzing the biological capabilities and safeguards of Grok 4.6. The post itself provides only a link, so the findings are not summarized here.

AILatchBio evaluated Grok 4.6 on biosecurity monitoring and adversarial biological tasks, finding it correctly detects and refuses dangerous queries, including maliciously obfuscated ones. The model also still answers beneficial scientific questions, according to the post's account of the results.

AIGrok Bot is now available to all standard Grok and Cursor subscribers, with SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers included. Cursor's Michael Truell says users are delegating tasks ranging from running small e-commerce businesses to testing production software. Weekly usage limits are also being reset for all users.

AILiveKit announces that developers can build voice agents using Grok Voice models, with full ZDR support. LiveKit's example patient intake agent cascades Grok STT, Grok 4.3, and Grok TTS through LiveKit Inference in a single AgentSession, with no separate API key or billing.