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Everything we’ve published under Grok so far.
xAI released standalone speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs with pricing, diarization, timestamps, multilingual support, and expressive speech tags. Translation: voice is moving from flashy agent demos into reusable infrastructure.
xAI raised $20B after targeting $15B, with NVIDIA and Cisco among strategic investors. The money story is really the compute story: Colossus, GPUs, Grok, and the brutally expensive path to staying in the frontier conversation.
xAI says SpaceX acquired it. The public note is tiny, almost comically so. The strategic implication is not tiny: Grok now sits even closer to one of the weirdest hardware, network, and attention machines on the planet.