xAI Grok 4.7: Same Price, Longer Coding Horizons
xAI (official pages also brand as SpaceXAI) released Grok 4.7, a same-price upgrade over Grok 4.6 aimed at longer coding and knowledge-work sessions. Day-one surfaces named in the launch post are Cursor, Grok Build, the Grok API, plus third-party coding
Alibaba Qwen-Image-2.1: Open-Weight 7B Image Gen + Edit
Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in one pipeline. The visual generation stack is compact: about 7 billion parameters across 32 Single-Stream DiT layers. On Hugging Face it wires up through
Grok Bot Explained: Persistent AI Teammates With Their Own Computer
Grok Bot is still trending after Galaxy — SpaceXAI’s (publishing on x.ai) three-day public stage for the product — and a recent voice rollout on desktop and mobile. The useful question for builders is narrower than “are agents here?”: what
xAI Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 Doubles STT Accuracy at Unchanged Pricing
xAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, a new speech-to-text model for its Speech-to-Text API. The vendor claim that matters for builders is simple: across xAI’s real-world evaluations, 2.0 is about twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 at the
OpenAI Ships Astra for Law: GPT-6 Astra Plus a Legal Search Stack
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law — GPT‑6 Astra wrapped with a dedicated U.S. legal search index, legal analysis/writing instructions, and a first wave of partner plugins. It is aimed at law firms and legal-tech builders who want frontier-model research and
Anthropic Merges Claude Chat and Cowork Into One Claude, Adds Docs and Slides
On September 16, 2026, Anthropic merged Claude Cowork and chat into one Claude and launched Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta. Claude Design now also works inside conversations. The company says you no longer pick a tab for the