Artificial Intelligence

If you've been waiting for access to X.AI's Conversational AI service known as Grok, then you should know the wait is almost over. Musk replied to a post today that suggests access to all will be available as soon as next week. After recently launching as a closed beta, Grok has been released to a small number of users outside X.AI. Those who are keen...

Satya Nadella has announced that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired from his position over the weekend. OpenAI Co-founder Greg Bockman and a number of key AI developers from the company are also joining Microsoft. Nadella confirmed the X-OpenAI team are joining to create a new advanced AI research team. Importantly Nadella recognises the opportunity that has emerged from the chaos in the...

In 2022, Elon Musk acquired and took Twitter Private under the brand X Corp. The primary asset of X Corp is the now renamed service X, but today, they have another item on the balance sheet, a slice of X.AI. Musk posted on X tonight that X Corp investors will own 25% of xAI. It is important to break down who the investors are...

OpenAI is in crisis mode right now, having earlier parted ways with CEO and Co-founder Sam Altman, now the President and Co-founder Greg Brockman just quit. OpenAI has been the leader in the AI space, with ChatGPT exploding onto the scene in late 2022. Since then the company has gone from strength to strength and its valuation has exploded. Posting on x, Brockman does...

This morning OpenAI released an unexpected press statement detailing that its CEO Sam Altman was no longer. OpenAI is the company that makes AI-powered services like ChatGPT and DALL-E. With no prior indication that there were issues at the company, the move comes as a shock to the industry, including Microsoft who famously made a $10 Billion investment to leverage OpenAI's technology in their...

Yesterday we brought you news of the first product/service from x.AI called Grok. Today that's gone all official, with its own dedicated page on the x.AI website, along with a signup page that is currently crashing (I guess the model wasn't helpful in predicting the amount of server capacity and bandwidth required by the old Twitter 1.1 API. Since posting about the errors, they have...

Earlier this year (July 12th), Elon Musk announced the formation of X.AI, a new company dedicated to developing AI-powered technology. At the time, it was suggested the first product was just weeks away, but things took a little longer. Today, Musk shared the first screenshot from the first service, which is called 'Grok'. The meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish...

I didn't pay much attention when Google first mentioned Magic Editor in Google Photos at Google IO in May 2023 but I'm definitely interested in it now after trying out this feature on their new Pixel 8 Pro Android phone. Magic Editor only works at the moment on a Pixel 8 Pro or Pixel 8. Later the feature may be enabled for older Pixel phones. Google...