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Grok Bot will run on Claude Opus 5.5 and tap Midjourney and Suno
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot will tap rival AI models including Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, Elon Musk said on 7 October. No start date yet.
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Nico Park
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Nico Park covers the AI desk, following the labs and the models they release, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Google and xAI. Recent stories include Claude Sonnet 5.5's speed gains, OpenAI's always-on dots agents, and Grok joining XChat group chats. Park has 25 stories in all, five of them August essays for the Tech desk on assistants, local models and open weights.
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SpaceXAI's Grokipedia v0.3 gets a new look as edits flow again
SpaceXAI's Grokipedia v0.3 landed last week with a new logo and a bookshelf homepage. Edits are flowing again, with 1,188,980 approved by 7 October.
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Musk says Grok maker SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI
Elon Musk says SpaceXAI, the Grok maker that grew out of xAI, will become SpaceXSI after Trump's 29 September Super Intelligence order. No date is set.
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xAI's Team Bots enter public beta for Teams and Enterprise
xAI opened Team Bots to public beta for Teams and Enterprise on 28 September. The shared Grok Bots pool files, plugins and skills, but chats stay private.
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Grok joins XChat group chats, plus a new TypeScript SDK
Grok can now join group chats in XChat, X said on 2 October. A day later, SpaceXAI released an experimental TypeScript kit for developers.
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xAI's Grok Bot now offers to do work before you ask
xAI's Grok Bot can now spot jobs and offer to do them unprompted, xAI said on 1 October. Grok 4.7 has also reached the Grok app's Expert and Heavy modes.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon goes to cyber defenders first
Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon arrived on 30 September. Vetted cyber defenders get it first. Paying developers and Ultra subscribers are next.
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OpenAI and Synopsys team up on GPT-Synopsys to design chips
OpenAI and Synopsys signed a multi-year deal on 30 September to build GPT-Synopsys. It's an AI model that runs chip-design tools like an expert engineer.
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Microsoft Research unveils Quine, an AI for biology labs
Microsoft Research unveiled Quine, a biology AI, on 29 September. In lab tests on pancreatic cancer cells, its top-ranked compounds had the biggest effect.
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OpenAI launches dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI launched dots at DevDay on 29 September. The always-on agents run on GPT-6 Astra, and Pro and Business Premium users get them first.
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 runs 30% faster at the same price
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 came out on 28 September. It's over 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task at the same token prices.