Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue.

Grok is coming for the coding-focused customers of its bigger rivals. Elon Musk's xAI dropped a new AI model this week, specifically for developers, calling it a "speedy and economical reasoning model ...

xAI hired contractors to help Grok climb a popular AI leaderboard with the goal of overtaking Anthropic. Training documents show xAI wanted to "beat Sonnet 3.7 Extended," Anthropic's coding rival. AI ...

Grok 4 and its reasoning-focused counterpart, Grok 4 Heavy, arrived with an immediate sense of ambition, offering multimodal AI designed to handle coding, logic, and perception tasks. In the initial ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Elon Musk's xAI released its first agentic coding model, which claims to be "speedy and economical. " However, it also ...

xAI added Grok 4 powered vending machine in its office, in partnership with Andon Labs. XAI Grok 4 beat OpenAI GPT-5 in real world vending machine operation This shows Grok 4’s long-term coherence ...

The rise of vibe coding is based on the promise of services like GPT-5: that in the future, you won’t have to know how to program at all in order to “create” software — you’ll just need to know how to ...

The new line of coding model may be faster but also less honest, as it fares worse there than the already problematic Grok 4. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including ...