On this day in 2023, Elon Musk officially announced xAI. A lot has happe

On this day in 2023, Elon Musk officially announced xAI. A lot has happened since then… • Jul 12, 2023 — xAI was officially announced with the mission of understanding the true nature of the universe. • Nov 3, 2023 — Unveiled Grok, its first AI model, trained in only two months and connected to real-time knowledge from 𝕏. • Nov 6, 2023 — Launched PromptIDE for prompt engineering and interpretability research. • Mar 17, 2024 — Open-released Grok-1’s weights and architecture, a 314B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. • Mar 28, 2024 — Announced Grok-1.5 with major reasoning improvements and a 128K-token context window. • Apr 12, 2024 — Introduced Grok-1.5V, xAI’s first multimodal model for understanding images, documents, charts, diagrams and screenshots. • May 26, 2024 — Raised $6 billion in Series B funding. • Aug 13, 2024 — Launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, bringing stronger reasoning, coding, vision and image generation to Grok. • Sep 2024 — Brought Colossus online with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, built from start to finish in only 122 days. • Nov 4, 2024 — Opened the xAI API public beta. • Dec 9, 2024 — Launched Aurora, xAI’s own autoregressive image-generation model. • Dec 12, 2024 — Made Grok free for everyone on 𝕏 while adding web search, citations and multilingual improvements. • Dec 23, 2024 — Raised another $6 billion through its Series C funding round. • Jan–Feb 2025 — Launched standalone Grok applications for iOS and Android. • Feb 2025 — Doubled Colossus to 200,000 GPUs just 92 days after completing the first 100,000-GPU cluster. • Feb 19, 2025 — Unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini, trained with roughly 10× more compute, alongside Think and DeepSearch. • Feb–Mar 2025 — Rolled out Voice Mode and the SuperGrok subscription. • Mar 17, 2025 — Acquired AI video-generation startup Hotshot. • Mar 28, 2025 — xAI acquired 𝕏 in an all-stock transaction, combining data, models, compute, distribution and talent. • Apr–May 2025 — Released Grok 3 through the API and launched Live Search for real-time information from the web and 𝕏. • Jul 9, 2025 — Launched Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy with native tool use, real-time search and reinforcement learning at unprecedented scale. • Jul 12, 2025 — Brought Grok directly into Tesla vehicles through an over-the-air software update. • Jul 14, 2025 — Launched xAI for Government. • Jul–Aug 2025 — Introduced Grok Companions, launched Grok Imagine for rapid image and video generation with sound, and open-released Grok 2. • Aug 28, 2025 — Launched Grok Code Fast 1 for fast and economical agentic coding. • Sep 19, 2025 — Launched Grok 4 Fast, delivering Grok 4-class performance with significantly greater token and cost efficiency. • Sep 25, 2025 — Expanded xAI for Government through the GSA OneGov program. • Oct 27, 2025 — Launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated knowledge platform powered by Grok. • Nov 17, 2025 — Launched Grok 4.1, which reached the #1 position on LMArena’s Text Arena during its rollout. • Nov 19, 2025 — Launched Grok 4.1 Fast and the Agent Tools API while announcing a major partnership with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN. • Dec 2025 — Partnered with El Salvador on a nationwide AI education program; launched the Grok Voice Agent API, Collections API, Grok Business and Grok Enterprise; and was selected for a major U.S. defense AI program. • By the end of 2025 — Colossus I and II had surpassed one million H100 GPU equivalents, while 𝕏 and Grok reached roughly 600 million monthly active users combined. • Jan 6, 2026 — Raised $20 billion through an upsized Series E funding round. • Jan 28, 2026 — Launched the Grok Imagine API for image creation, video generation and media editing. • Feb 2, 2026 — SpaceX acquired xAI, combining artificial intelligence, rockets, satellites, communications and real-time information. • Mar 10, 2026 — Launched Grok 4.20 and Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent, allowing multiple specialized agents to collaborate on difficult problems. • Apr 17–30, 2026 — Launched standalone Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs, Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 and Custom Voices. • May 5, 2026 — Launched Grok 4.3 with a 1M-token context window, configurable reasoning and advanced tool-calling capabilities. • May 6, 2026 — Launched Grok Connectors and Imagine Quality Mode while announcing a major Colossus computing partnership with Anthropic. • May 15–21, 2026 — Brought Grok subscriptions to Hermes Agent, OpenClaw and OpenCode, then launched Grok Skills for persistent expertise, workflow automation and document generation. • May 25, 2026 — Launched Grok Build, an agentic coding CLI capable of planning, searching, editing, testing and building software directly from the terminal. • May 27–Jun 15, 2026 — Expanded the Grok coding ecosystem with Kilo Code, Grok Build through the API, Composer 2.5, plugins, a marketplace, an Agent Dashboard and Warp integration. • Jun 3–18, 2026 — Launched Grok Imagine Video 1.5, expanded Grok Voice through Vapi, powered Gopuff’s Go and eToro’s Tori, and brough