Sky News reported Grok faces censure for attacks on major religions and a series of inaccurate claims regarding historic disasters involving football teams and fans.
HUMAIN invests $3 billion in xAI
The investment was part of a $20 billion funding round xAI completed in early January with investors including Nvidia and Cisco.
SpaceX acquires xAI in trillion-dollar deal
The deal gives SpaceX a valuation of $1 trillion, and xAI a value of $250 billion.
UK regulator launches investigation into Grok AI
It also plans to assess if X is taking appropriate steps to remove illegal content; protect users from a breach of privacy laws; and use age assurance measures to protect children from seeing pornography.
Malaysia and Indonesia ban access to Grok
The ban on the chatbot in the two countries comes only days after xAI, which owns Grok, moved to limit image editing to paying customers following a backlash over users being able to generate sexual content.
xAI looks to raise funding for LLM GPUs
CNBC reported the deadline for the funding raise was 25 November with a closing date of 19 December.
Musk threatens to sue Apple over xAI App Store ranking
Musk threatens to sue Apple over low app store ranking of his AI app.
xAI looking to lease data centre capacity from Saudi Arabia
Talks are in the early stages, but an arrangement could include several gigawatts of capacity for xAI.
AI funding hits record-high of $23.6bn in Q2
AI start-ups are on track for another record year, driven by strong early investment and major funding deals. Mega deals, …
xAI apologies for recent horrific behaviour of Grok chatbot
xAI explained the update “was active for 16 hours” and made the chatbot “susceptible to existing X user posts” including those containing “extremist views”.