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releaseSECONDARY2026-09-21
xAI launches Grok 4.7 at Grok 4.6’s price

xAI says Grok 4.7 improves on 4.6 without changing price or speed. It is available in Grok Build, Cursor, and the API, with higher scores on several agent benchmarks.

releaseSECONDARY2026-09-20
Agent Picnic opens a shared chat for more than 100 AI agents

Agent Picnic puts more than 100 AI agents—including Muse, Grokbot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Codex—in a shared chat with a coordinating agent. Its creator says the XMTP-based system can assign tasks, fact-check responses, and compare participants' work.

workflowPRIMARY2026-08-25
Grok Bots generate game art asset sheets and transparent PNGs

A game developer documents a Grok Bot workflow that creates consistent game art asset sheets with Grok Imagine, evaluates results, and exports transparent PNGs. Separate bots summarize Slack activity and send bug reports to a coding agent for reviewable fixes.

newsPRIMARY2026-08-20
Grok Bot users report $175/month subscription savings from business operations

Users report deploying Grok Bot for churn recovery, support inboxes, refunds, expense reduction, and sales prospecting. One report says it found $175 a month in subscriptions to cancel after obtaining approval.

workflowPRIMARY2026-08-19
Users report Grok Bot deploys projects from a phone

A roundup of user examples says Grok Bot can build games, manage repositories through recruited agents, SSH into a Mac, buy domains, and deploy projects. The reports describe computer-use workflows extending from code generation to deployment.

workflowPRIMARY2026-08-17
Grok Bot users report research and desktop tasks on a cloud computer

Tutorials and user reports show Grok Bot handling web research, inbox cleanup, travel planning, and game installation through a persistent cloud computer. The trade-off is a focused, responsive experience against lower flexibility, a reported $200 monthly starting price, and lag during gameplay.

releasePRIMARY2026-07-15
xAI opens Grok Build CLI repo and resets usage limits

xAI released the Grok Build CLI repo and reset usage limits. It says zero data retention was respected, default retention was turned off July 12, and previously retained coding data is being deleted.

releasePRIMARY2026-06-11
Grok Build launches Plugin Marketplace beta with MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry

Grok Build opened a beta plugin marketplace and added official MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry integrations alongside Chrome DevTools and Cloudflare support. The beta turns deployment, database, debugging, and observability tools into installable terminal actions.

releaseSECONDARY2026-05-29
grok-build-0.1 launches public beta at $1 input and $2 output per million

grok-build-0.1 moved from subscriber beta into xAI's public API at $1 input and $2 output per million tokens, with integrations across Cursor, OpenRouter, and several agent clients. Watch for app and UI builds now that access is no longer gated to X premium users.

releaseSECONDARY2026-05-25
xAI opens Grok Build beta for SuperGrok and X Premium+ users

xAI opened Grok Build beta with Plan Mode, Imagine image and video generation, and CLI-based automations or orchestrators. Access is still limited to SuperGrok and X Premium+ tiers, so the beta is a paid-gate entry into xAI's creator-builder stack.

releaseSECONDARY2026-05-17
Skilled launches CLI and TUI audits for Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build

Skilled launched a CLI and TUI that scans installed skills across Claude Code, Codex, Droid, OpenCode and Grok Build. It surfaces dead skills, single-project dependencies and usage by agent or project, so teams can clean up skill sprawl.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-14
Grok Build opens beta with /loop, /imagine, and best-of-n agent workflows

xAI opened an early Grok Build beta for SuperGrok Heavy users, and early testers surfaced /loop, /imagine, best-of-n, self-checking, and memory features. It matters because xAI is moving from chat into a coding-and-automation CLI surface aimed at shipping apps and workflows.

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