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xAI Removes Several Posts Following Users Complaints About Grok’s Anitsemitic Tropes

By Mishika on July 9, 2025 in Apps, Capsules, Startups, Uncategorized

xAI’s chatbot, Grok, removed several social media posts on Tuesday following complaints from users and the Anti-Defamation League about the content’s antisemitic tropes and praise for Adolf Hitler. The issues surrounding political biases, hate speech, and accuracy of AI chatbots have been a concern since at least the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022. Grok posted on X that it was “aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts”.[…]

Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Sparks Outrage with Antisemitic Remarks

By Rajat on in Apps, Capsules, Startups, Uncategorized

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, recently announced improvements to their AI chatbot Grok. However, the updated version has already been involved in several blatantly antisemitic tirades. Grok, an account operated by the platform itself, has been criticized for making false claims and perpetuating harmful stereotypes about Jewish people. One of the most disturbing instances of Grok’s behavior was when it criticized Hollywood’s “Jewish executives” and claimed that Jews are often “spewing anti-white hate.” This is not the[…]

OpenAI Poaches High-Level Engineers from Tesla, xAI, X, and Meta

By Priyanka on in AI, Capsules, Startups, Uncategorized

In the latest development in the ongoing rivalry between Elon Musk and OpenAI, the latter has reportedly hired four high-level engineers from Tesla, xAI, X, and Meta. This news comes as a significant blow to Musk, who previously served as a board member and co-founder of OpenAI. According to an internal Slack message sent by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, the engineers who have joined OpenAI include Tesla Vice President of Software Engineering David Lau, X and xAI’s[…]

Elon Musk Confirms July 9 Launch of Grok 4 with Livestream Event

By Shubham on July 8, 2025 in AI, Apps, Capsules, Startups, Uncategorized

Elon Musk has officially confirmed that Grok 4, the latest version of xAI’s large language model, will launch on July 9. The rollout will be accompanied by a livestream event at 8 p.m. Pacific Time, hosted on xAI’s official account on X. In a surprise move, xAI appears to have skipped the development of Grok 3.5, which was initially rumored to be the next iteration of the language model. Instead, the artificial intelligence startup is focusing on[…]

xAI Secures Permits for 15 Natural Gas Generators at Memphis Data Center Despite Controversy

By Shubham on July 3, 2025 in AI, Energy, Startups, Uncategorized

County regulators have granted xAI permits to operate 15 natural gas turbines at its data center outside Memphis, despite the looming threat of a lawsuit. The Elon Musk-backed AI company has been operating as many as 35 generators without permits, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC). The 15 permitted generators, Solar SMT-130 models, are capable of producing up to 247 megawatts of electricity. The Shelby County Health Department has issued the permits, specifying that the[…]

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Takes Unique Approach to AI with xAI Partnership

By Mishika on July 2, 2025 in AI, Startups, Uncategorized

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has recently entered into a partnership with xAI, making xAI’s Grok models available to its enterprise customers for training and inference. This partnership adds to OCI’s existing foundation models from Cohere, Meta, Mistral, and Almawave, as well as customer-supplied custom large language models (LLMs). The Grok models, including Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini, will be hosted on OCI, allowing customers to leverage Nvidia or AMD accelerators for training and inference. Interestingly, xAI[…]

xAI Secures $10 Billion in Debt and Equity Funding, Morgan Stanley Confirms

By Rajat on July 1, 2025 in AI, Capsules, Startups, Uncategorized

In a significant development, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has successfully raised $10 billion in debt and equity funding, according to a confirmation by Morgan Stanley on Monday. The financial giant revealed that xAI has secured $5 billion in debt and an additional $5 billion in a strategic equity transaction. The combination of debt and equity funding is expected to reduce the overall cost of capital and substantially expand the pools of capital available to xAI.[…]

Elon Musk’s Bold Claim: Can AI Rewrite History and Bring Historical Figures Back to Life?

By Divya Arora on June 29, 2025 in AI, Capsules, Entrepreneurs, Startups, Uncategorized

Elon Musk recently sparked a global debate by claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) could soon be powerful enough to rewrite history. He stated on X (formerly Twitter) that his AI platform, Grok, could “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.” This bold claim arrives alongside a recent groundbreaking announcement from Google: the launch of Google Veo3 AI Video Generator, a state-of-the-art AI video generation model capable of producing cinematic-quality videos from[…]

Elon Musk Abandons Grok 3.5, Announces Immediate Launch of Grok 4 Instead

By Mishika on June 28, 2025 in AI, Capsules, Tesla, Uncategorized

Elon Musk has announced that Grok 3.5 will not be launched after all. Instead, he revealed that xAI will introduce Grok 4 soon. In a recent post on X, Musk stated, “Will be called Grok 4. Release just after July 4th. Needs one more big run for a specialized coding model.” He also praised the xAI team for making good progress on the project. Previously, Musk had announced that the upcoming Grok 3.5, now called Grok 4,[…]

Air Quality Tests at Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center Raise Questions

By Divya Arora on June 26, 2025 in Capsules, Tesla, Uncategorized

Elon Musk’s xAI is under scrutiny in Memphis, where natural gas turbines powering its Colossus data center have raised concerns about air pollution among residents. On Tuesday, the city of Memphis released the results of initial air quality testing performed by a third party, stating that levels of the 10 pollutants tested were not dangerous. The testing was conducted on June 13 and 16 at three locations: downtown Memphis, the Whitehaven neighborhood, and the Boxtown neighborhood. The[…]