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xAI has connected Grok Bot with X, letting paid users authorise Bots to search posts, read timelines, monitor mentions and collect current information. The integration creates an X developer account when required and supplies free API credits, turning a background AI colleague into a more capable social-workflow assistant for teams.
xAI has widened Grok Bot access beyond its initial beta. The always-on agent service is now included with SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+ and Cursor Teams, giving more individual and team subscribers access to agents that can work across connected tools while requesting approval when needed.
xAI has made Grok 4.6 available through Google Enterprise Agent Platform’s Model Garden, giving enterprise developers another route to use the model for long-running agent and interactive workloads. The announcement sets out a 500,000-token context window, configurable reasoning effort and listed token pricing.
Grok 4.6 is now generally available through Amazon Bedrock, according to xAI. Supported AWS-region customers can access the flagship model through Bedrock with a 500,000-token context window, configurable reasoning effort and listed pricing of US$2 per million input tokens and US$6 per million output tokens.
xAI has made Grok 4.6 available through GitHub Copilot, bringing its latest coding model to developers working in VS Code and across GitHub. Organisations may need to enable the model in Copilot settings, while developers can also access Grok 4.6 directly through xAI’s own console and API.
xAI has opened Grok Bot in early beta, offering cloud-based AI teammates that can work across apps, inboxes and websites while users are away. The service is initially limited to selected SuperGrok and Cursor subscribers, with enterprise access available through a waitlist. with a general release date yet to be announced.
xAI has released Grok 4.6, positioning the model for longer-running agent tasks, coding and interactive visual projects. It is available through Grok Build, Cursor, the xAI API and selected partners, with input pricing from US$2 per million tokens and output pricing from US$6 per million tokens.
xAI has made Imagine Image 2.0 generally available as Grok's new Quality Mode, adding targeted edits, segmentation, background removal, multi-reference inputs and smart resizing. The release reaches Grok's web and mobile products now, with reusable creative templates included, while API access remains a future addition.
xAI has expanded Grok Imagine Video 1.5 with image and voice references, native 1080p output and wider text-to-video availability. Most capabilities are also reaching the API, while voice references begin with a limited US subscription rollout and request-based API access.
xAI has released a free Grok add-on for Google Workspace, bringing its assistant into Sheets, Slides and Docs. The integration can analyse spreadsheet data, build editable presentations and draft documents, giving teams a new in-app option for research and content production.
xAI has released Grok as a Microsoft Outlook add-in for summarising threads, drafting replies and organising email. It is available to paid X and SuperGrok users, while important questions about enterprise administration, data handling and regional availability remain for organisations to verify.
xAI has released Grok for Excel as a free Microsoft 365 add-in. It can answer questions about selected spreadsheet data, generate formulas, create charts, run forecast scenarios and draw context from connected email or file services without requiring users to leave their workbook.
xAI has released Grok 4.5 for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, with immediate access through its API, Grok Build and Cursor. The company is positioning the model around engineering performance, faster generation and lower token use, while its benchmark and efficiency claims still require independent testing.