2026-04-25 By Rex Dane 2 min read
xAI’s new voice model claims top spot on the Tau Voice Bench, promising to survive background noise and interruptions. But a capable voice model still needs you to know what you want it to do.
2026-04-18 By Rex Dane 4 min read
xAI broke Grok into standalone Speech to Text and Text to Speech APIs. The talking bot is the circus; the modular APIs are the actual infrastructure developers can ship.
2026-03-13 By Rex Dane 4 min read
xAI’s massive $20B Series E isn't just a funding round—it's a clear signal that frontier AI has become a brutal capital-to-compute conversion engine.
2026-03-04 By Rex Dane 3 min read
The official note is tiny, but the implications are huge. Grok is moving closer to Starlink, SpaceX operations, and a global hardware network where AI can be tested in real-world extremes.