What Is xAI? The Company Behind Grok, Now Part of SpaceX
xAI is Elon Musk's AI company and the maker of the Grok chatbot — now absorbed into SpaceX and rebranded SpaceXAI. Here's what it builds, how it got there, and how to try it.
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Grok 4.5 Launches Cheaper Than Opus, With Mixed Benchmarks
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its first model trained on Cursor data, priced well below Anthropic's Opus 4.8 — though its own self-reported benchmarks show mixed results against it.
Read more →What Is AI-Powered Code Security Auditing — and How Does It Work?
AI agents can now scan millions of lines of code for vulnerabilities in hours instead of years. Here's what AI-powered code security auditing is and how it actually works.
Read more →What Is Claude Code — and How Does It Actually Work?
Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads, edits, and tests real codebases from the terminal. Here's how it works, what it costs, and how to try it.
Read more →What Is Agentic Commerce — and How Does AI Shopping Work?
Agentic commerce lets an AI agent finish a purchase inside a chat instead of a website checkout. Here's how the payment protocols behind it actually work.
Read more →Chinese AI Models Capture Up to 46% of US Firms' Tokens
OpenRouter data shows Chinese AI models now handle over 30% of tokens run by US firms every week since February, peaking at 46%, as companies chase costs up to 90% lower than Anthropic or OpenAI.
Read more →OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 With 25% Lower Voice Latency
OpenAI has released GPT-Realtime-2.1 and a smaller mini version for its Realtime API, cutting voice-agent response latency by at least 25% through improved caching.
Read more →What Is MCP (Model Context Protocol) — and Why Does It Matter?
MCP is an open standard that lets AI models like Claude and ChatGPT connect to outside tools, files, and apps — instead of needing custom code for every single connection.
Read more →What Is a Token in AI — and How Does It Affect What You Pay?
A token is the small chunk of text an AI model actually reads and writes, and it's what most AI pricing is now based on. Here's what tokens are — and why some languages need more of them than others.
Read more →What Is Usage-Based AI Pricing — and Why Are Companies Adopting It?
AI providers are replacing flat subscriptions with metered, pay-per-token billing for heavy and agentic use. Here's what usage-based pricing means and why the shift is happening now.
Read more →Claude Fable 5 Exits Subscriptions for Metered Billing
Anthropic has pulled Claude Fable 5 out of subscription plans and moved it to pay-per-token billing, charging $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
Read more →What Is GLM? Zhipu AI's Open-Weight Model Family, Explained
GLM is the open-weight AI model family from Chinese lab Zhipu AI (Z.ai) — free to download and self-host, and competitive with top US models at a fraction of the API cost.
Read more →What Is Midjourney — and How Do You Use It?
Midjourney turns text prompts into images using AI. Here's what it is, how to start using it, what it costs, and why it keeps ending up in court.
Read more →What Happens to Your Data When You Use AI Tools?
When you chat with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, what happens to that data? Here is what the main AI tools actually do with your conversations — and how to stay in control.
Read more →What Is an AI Companion — and Why Are Governments Regulating Them?
AI companions are chatbots built for emotional connection, not task completion. As apps like Replika and Character.AI reach tens of millions of users, governments in China, the US, and Europe are introducing rules to protect vulnerable users.
Read more →What Are AI Agents — and What Can They Actually Do?
AI agents are AI systems that can pursue multi-step goals on their own — writing code, browsing the web, filling forms — without waiting for human input at every step. Here's what they are, how they work, and how to try one today.
Read more →What Is Chatbot Arena — and How Does It Rank AI Models?
Chatbot Arena (now Arena) is a free platform that ranks AI models through blind human votes — and it’s the leaderboard the whole AI industry watches.
Read more →Meituan Reveals LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI That Secretly Led Global Charts
Chinese tech company Meituan has disclosed that "Owl Alpha," an anonymous model that topped OpenRouter rankings for two months, was its 1.6-trillion-parameter LongCat-2.0 — trained entirely on domestic chips and now free under an MIT license.
Read more →What Is AI Translation — and How Well Does It Handle Georgian?
AI translation tools now support Georgian, but quality varies. This guide explains how neural machine translation works, which tools handle Georgian best, and when human review is still essential.
Read more →Mistral Releases Leanstral 1.5 to Automate Math Proofs and Code Verification
Mistral's new open-source model for Lean 4 fully saturates the miniF2F theorem benchmark, solves 87% of graduate-level math tests, and found five previously unknown bugs in production code — at roughly $4 per proof versus $300 for competing systems.
Read more →How to Use AI for Writing — Tools, Tips, and Where to Start
AI can help with emails, reports, blog posts, and creative drafts — but the best results come from knowing how to work with it, not just what to type. Here is a practical guide.
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