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.

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 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 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 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 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 ...