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$80.0B
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news.crunchbase.comAI company founded by Elon Musk focused on building AI to understand the universe. Creator of Grok LLM integrated with X/Twitter.
On July 8, 2026 Elon Musk said SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 model will be made available to the public on July 9 after internal beta testing at SpaceX and Tesla. Musk described Grok 4.5 as an “Opus-class” model that is faster, more token‑efficient and lower cost than rivals.
On July 6, 2026, the Guardian reported on an Oxford–Potsdam study showing that AI writing tools from xAI, Meta, Google, Alibaba’s Qwen and Mistral often change the political meaning of users’ draft posts on sensitive topics like abortion, climate change and religion. Researchers found that some systems injected liberal-leaning language while xAI’s Grok tended to tilt messages in a more conservative direction, even when instructed to preserve the original intent.
On July 6, 2026, the Washington Post reported that Anthropic secretly used tracking code to identify suspected Chinese corporate users of its Claude Code agent, aiming to stop them from 'distilling' its models to train rival systems. The report details how Anthropic and OpenAI have accused Chinese firms including Alibaba’s Qwen team, DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of large-scale model distillation, prompting tighter U.S. export controls and access restrictions.