What is filed under xai?

Posts tagged xai collect Will Spurlock's writing on this topic. The three newest excerpts: Grok Bot is xAI's always-on teammate product. I staff one primary that knows the shop, then add specialists. They draft. I approve sends, copy, and merges. I missed the August 12 Grok 4.6 pin. Today I pin grok-4.6, stay under 200k unless I mean to double the whole request, and I will not invent a Fast API ID. Pin cursor-grok-4.6-xhigh-fast as the Cursor Task default. Omit model and you inherit the parent. Never send that slug to api.x.ai — pin grok-4.6 there.

10 posts as of 2026-09-06, counted from content/blog frontmatter

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What Is Grok Bot? Staff One Primary, Then Specialists.

Grok Bot is xAI's always-on teammate product. I staff one primary that knows the shop, then add specialists. They draft. I approve sends, copy, and merges.

9/6/2026

29 min read

AI Models & Frontier NewsAI Agents & Automation+1

Grok 4.6: Pin the ID, Watch the 200k Cliff.

I missed the August 12 Grok 4.6 pin. Today I pin grok-4.6, stay under 200k unless I mean to double the whole request, and I will not invent a Fast API ID.

9/4/2026

26 min read

AI Coding & Dev ToolsAI Agents & Automation+1

Grok 4.6 Extra High Fast in Cursor Is the Subagent Default. Pin It.

Pin cursor-grok-4.6-xhigh-fast as the Cursor Task default. Omit model and you inherit the parent. Never send that slug to api.x.ai — pin grok-4.6 there.

9/3/2026

26 min read

AI Agents & Automation

OpenAI vs. xAI: The Trillion-Dollar War for the Future of AGI

An extensive deep-dive into the Musk vs. Altman rivalry, the historic $150B lawsuit, xAI's explosive growth, and the dark reality of the race to AGI.

4/29/2026

18 min read

AI Models & Frontier News

Grok 4 and Kimi K2: How I Prompted the Global Frontier Models for Agentic Workflows

I spent 48 hours stress-testing Grok 4 and Kimi K2 through identical agentic workflows. Here's the exact system prompts and tool schemas that reveal how these frontier models handle multi-step reasoning, tool selection, and loop recovery.

7/9/2025

22 min read

AI Models & Frontier News

Grok-2 Image Generation API + Free X Tier: xAI's Distribution Play

xAI launches Grok-2 image generation API and expands free access on X. Here's the distribution strategy, capabilities, and how it stacks against DALL-E, Midjourney, and FLUX.

11/11/2024

12 min read

AI Models & Frontier News

xAI Colossus: Inside the World's Largest AI Training Supercomputer

xAI's Colossus supercomputer comes online with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, making it the world's largest AI training cluster. Built in just 122 days.

9/4/2024

39 min read

AI Models & Frontier News

Grok-2 Image Generation Backlash: The Uncensored Flux-Powered Deepfake Crisis

xAI ships Grok-2 image generation on X powered by Black Forest Labs FLUX.1—lighter guardrails than rivals and a sharp election-year stress test for policy.

8/15/2024

4 min read

AI Models & Frontier News

Grok-2 + Grok-2 Mini Beta: The \"Sus-Column-R\" Model That Beat Claude 3.5 Sonnet on LMSYS

xAI ships Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta—the same stack that hit Chatbot Arena as sus-column-r. Here is what the LMSYS Elo story actually says next to the spreadsheet benchmarks.

8/14/2024

15 min read

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10 posts as of 2026-09-06, counted from content/blog frontmatter.

What should I read first in xai?

Start with "What Is Grok Bot? Staff One Primary, Then Specialists.". Grok Bot is xAI's always-on teammate product. I staff one primary that knows the shop, then add specialists. They draft. I approve sends, copy, and merges.