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xAI engineer fired after raising Grok safety alarms, lawsuit claims

A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit against the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired after repeatedly raising safety concerns about the Grok AI chatbot. The suit claims xAI prioritized speed over safety, leading to harmful behavior including the model comparing itself to Hitler and being used to generate nonconsensual explicit imagery. It targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba as the alleged source of retaliation, while portraying Musk as supportive of safety measures.

Jun 103 minNeura News

AI Tools

x.AI Launches Grok Build Terminal Coding Agent

x.AI, Elon Musk's AI firm, has released Grok Build, its first terminal-based coding agent. The CLI tool enters a market led by Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Available in early beta to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, it offers plan mode, diffs, parallel sub-agents, and headless operation.

May 153 minNeura News

Industry

SpaceXAI Loses Over 50 Staff Since Merger

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has seen more than 50 researchers and engineers leave since February, following its merger. Key teams in coding, world models, and Grok voice have lost leaders, with rivals like Meta and Thinking Machine Labs hiring many. Concerns grow over pre-training team cuts and work culture.

May 143 minNeura News

Product Launch

xAI Releases Grok 4.3 with Price Cuts and Imagine Agent Mode

xAI has launched Grok 4.3, a model designed for developers that handles tasks such as web searches and code execution at lower prices. It shows gains in some benchmarks but trails leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic. A beta Agent Mode for Grok Imagine supports extended creative projects like movies or manga sets.

May 23 minNeura News

Industry

Musk Testifies in OpenAI Trial Week 1: Duped, AI Perils, xAI Model Use

During the first week of the Elon Musk versus OpenAI trial in Oakland, Musk testified that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman tricked him into funding the company with $38 million. He warned the jury that AI poses an existential risk, could lead to human extinction like in Terminator, and admitted xAI distills OpenAI models for its Grok chatbot. OpenAI lawyers accused Musk of suing to harm a rival while he runs competing firms like Tesla and Neuralink.

May 14 minNeura News

AI Models

Musk Testifies xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models

Elon Musk testified in court that his company xAI used distillation techniques on OpenAI models to help train Grok. He confirmed this during his lawsuit against OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman. Musk also ranked leading AI firms and noted xAI's smaller size.

Apr 303 minNeura News

Industry

Elon Musk Confirms xAI Used OpenAI Models for Grok

Elon Musk testified that xAI partly used OpenAI models through distillation to train Grok. The admission came during a federal trial in California over OpenAI's direction. Model distillation involves a larger AI teaching a smaller one, a practice sparking legal debates in the industry.

Apr 303 minNeura News

AI Models

Survey: Claude US Users Wealthier Than AI Rivals

A survey by Epoch AI and Ipsos reveals that 80 percent of US adults using Claude weekly come from households earning over $100,000 annually, outpacing rivals like Microsoft Copilot at 64 percent and ChatGPT, Grok, and Google Gemini at 56 percent each. Meta AI lags at 37 percent. While Claude leads among wealthy users proportionally, ChatGPT holds the largest absolute share at 37 percent of high earners.

Apr 263 minNeura News

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xAI engineer fired after raising Grok safety alarms, lawsuit claims

x.AI Launches Grok Build Terminal Coding Agent

SpaceXAI Loses Over 50 Staff Since Merger

xAI Releases Grok 4.3 with Price Cuts and Imagine Agent Mode

Musk Testifies in OpenAI Trial Week 1: Duped, AI Perils, xAI Model Use

Musk Testifies xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models

Elon Musk Confirms xAI Used OpenAI Models for Grok

Survey: Claude US Users Wealthier Than AI Rivals