<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>How xAI and Grok developed</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/</link><description>Ongoing. Follow Grok from its first public test to new ownership and regulatory investigations. Product announcements, company transactions and unresolved platform-safety questions are recorded separately.</description><language>en</language><item><title>14 Oct 2026: Ofcom narrows part of its inquiry but keeps the illegal-content investigation open</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e18</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-ad41c7ee0d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Ofcom said it would not take forward specified child-risk, safety and reporting duties at that time after X changed an age-gating issue not directly related to the Grok reports. It made no findings on those duties and reserved the option to revisit them. The investigation into illegal-content duties remained open.</description></item><item><title>14 Oct 2026: Grok Voice 3.0 is announced for the API</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e19</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-a2f38aba4a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>SpaceXSI announced its next speech-to-speech model, Grok Voice 3.0, and said it was available through its API. The release is recorded without adopting its performance rankings or cost comparisons as independent findings.</description></item><item><title>12 Oct 2026: A combined subscription joins Grok, Cursor and X</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e17</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-80c68835a3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>SpaceXSI announced The X Subscription, bringing Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium into one plan. It said new customers could subscribe that day while existing-account migration would roll out. A shared subscription does not erase the separate identities of these products.</description></item><item><title>21 Sep 2026: Grok 4.7 adds another release to the product line</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e16</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-0645e53f48</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The company announced Grok 4.7 and described access through Cursor, Grok Build and its API. The release is recorded as a product milestone without adopting the company&#x27;s benchmark rankings as independently established facts.</description></item><item><title>14 Aug 2026: SpaceX completes the Cursor acquisition</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e15</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-6773f7904d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>SpaceX&#x27;s quarterly filing records closing of its acquisition of Cursor on 14 August, following an agreement signed on 16 June. Its Super Intelligence segment includes Cursor as well as Grok and X.</description></item><item><title>11 Aug 2026: Grok Bot launches in beta</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e14</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-7c05b4abdb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>SpaceXSI introduced Grok Bot, describing agents with their own cloud computer and access to connected tools. The announcement offered beta access through selected Grok and Cursor plans. Its descriptions of autonomous work are company claims, not a guarantee that the system completes every task safely.</description></item><item><title>11 Jun 2026: Canada finds privacy violations and records company objections</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e13</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-a95f5a15a7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Canada&#x27;s Privacy Commissioner found that X Corp. and X.AI LLC had not obtained valid consent for generating sexualised deepfakes. The companies disagreed with the conclusions and described safeguards and remedial action. The Commissioner treated the matter as well-founded but unresolved and said implementation of commitments would be monitored.</description></item><item><title>2 Feb 2026: SpaceX acquires xAI</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e12</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-a6ee999900</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>xAI announced that it had joined SpaceX. SpaceX&#x27;s subsequent financial filing records completion of the acquisition on 2 February 2026, after the earlier combination of xAI and X.</description></item><item><title>26 Jan 2026: The European Commission opens a Grok investigation</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e11</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-0028ad1da5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The Commission opened a Digital Services Act investigation into whether X had properly assessed and mitigated risks from deploying Grok, including risks involving illegal images. The announcement describes a regulatory inquiry, not a final liability finding.</description></item><item><title>15 Jan 2026: Ofcom records X&#x27;s announced safeguards</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e10</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-40f4537755</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Ofcom said X had announced measures intended to prevent Grok from creating intimate images of real people. The regulator said its investigation was continuing and that it was assessing whether those changes adequately protected users.</description></item><item><title>12 Jan 2026: Ofcom opens an investigation into X</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-d9c87a70ec</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The UK regulator opened an investigation into X over reports of Grok-generated sexualised imagery. It examined whether X met statutory duties to protect people from illegal content and children from harmful content. Opening the inquiry did not establish a breach.</description></item><item><title>6 Jan 2026: xAI reports a USD 20 billion Series E</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-12c0bcdc80</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>xAI announced completion of a USD 20 billion funding round. The amount reported as raised exceeded the USD 15 billion target mentioned in the announcement.</description></item><item><title>9 Jul 2025: Grok 4 launches</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-8fb8f8071d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>xAI announced Grok 4 for paid consumer plans and its API, alongside a higher-tier offering called Grok 4 Heavy. Availability and model branding are distinct from verified superiority over competing systems.</description></item><item><title>28 Mar 2025: X and the AI business combine under one holding company</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-efdb9aa722</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>SpaceX later reported that X.AI Holdings acquired X Holdings and the AI operating company on 28 March 2025. Both became wholly owned subsidiaries of that holding company.</description></item><item><title>19 Feb 2025: Grok 3 receives an early preview</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-956baa26e9</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>xAI announced an early preview of Grok 3 and associated reasoning capabilities. The announcement presented the developer&#x27;s own evaluation of the model, rather than independent validation of its accuracy.</description></item><item><title>23 Dec 2024: A second USD 6 billion round closes</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-27f45474d9</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>xAI said it had closed its Series C funding round. This was a new company financing event, separate from the Series B announced in May.</description></item><item><title>26 May 2024: xAI announces USD 6 billion in Series B funding</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-84324dac86</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The company announced a USD 6 billion round to support infrastructure, product development and research. The financing announcement did not establish a personal wealth figure for Musk.</description></item><item><title>17 Mar 2024: The base Grok-1 model is released openly</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-b56679532a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>xAI released the base weights and architecture of Grok-1 under the Apache 2.0 licence. It specified that this was the base model, rather than a model fine-tuned for dialogue.</description></item><item><title>3 Nov 2023: Grok enters a limited early test</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-998719412a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>xAI introduced Grok as an early chatbot prototype and offered limited access to users in the United States. The announcement acknowledged that the system could produce false or contradictory information.</description></item><item><title>12 Jul 2023: xAI announces the company</title><link>https://howitunfolded.com/companies/xai-grok/#e0</link><guid isPermaLink="false">xai-grok-fec40d7942</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The company chronology dates its public announcement to 12 July 2023. This is the public introduction, distinct from the earlier start of corporate operations.</description></item></channel></rss>