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According to a report from TechCrunch, Elon Musk announced that Grok would release a full-length, "historically accurate" movie version of "The Odyssey" three months later. On October 23, Grok released the first seven minutes of this AI-generated content, calling it "the first episode of our Odyssey series." This version was produced in collaboration with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. The Grok Imagine account posted on X, stating that viewers could comment on whether a complete production analysis is needed.The report mentioned that Musk previously criticized Christopher Nolan's version of "The Odyssey" because Nolan cast non-white and transgender actors. Although Nolan's version heavily utilized visual effects, it was still primarily a live-action film, shot across six countries with thousands of cast and crew members. After its release in July, the film achieved impressive box office results, with IMAX screenings sold out for several months, and it is considered a strong contender for the next Academy Awards.The TechCrunch author, after watching, stated that the video was not as bad as expected; some shots could be mistaken for real actors sailing on real seas, but the historical accuracy could not be determined. The author felt that the footage lacked artistry, inspiration, and warmth; the narration was lengthy, the dialogue stiff, and overall it lacked a sense of breath and momentum, making it hard to imagine that viewers would be interested in another seven minutes or even a whole movie.

TechCrunch reported that the conversational AI research and design studio Convovo, led by Cornell University professor Tapan Parikh, released a study stating that when asked to recommend only one candidate for the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 chose Republican candidates 92% of the time, while OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol chose Democratic candidates 97% of the time. The study covered nearly 500 campaigns, with the two models agreeing on recommendations less than 10% of the time.Researchers posed the same question to both models via API, asking for a specific candidate without allowing for avoidance or a tie. The report noted that consumer applications refused to answer. An OpenAI spokesperson stated that ChatGPT is designed to be objective by default, and political conversations should not carry any directional bias; the study tested the developer API, and the prompt explicitly requested a candidate recommendation, which cannot represent the user experience when asking questions through the chat application. SpaceXAI did not respond to requests for comment in time.The report indicated that Grok's responses often cited conservative sources as well as Ballotpedia, OpenSecrets, and VoteSmart, with 39% including Christian conservative voter guides, 23% including Turning Point Action, and 41% including X; GPT's results heavily relied on Wikipedia, the Associated Press, Axios, and Reddit. The study also mentioned that each time Grok was called via the xAI API, it included approximately 1,240 additional input tokens that the researchers did not write, could not view, or remove. Parikh subsequently disabled online search and sampled 30 campaigns, with GPT choosing Democrats in 24 cases, while Grok refused to choose in 27 cases.

SpaceX launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence (SI) Partner Network, with partners including Nvidia, Apollo, Databricks, and Bain Capital.

Elon Musk stated that as GrokBot continues to improve, user adoption is increasing. SpaceX will deploy GrokBot on a large scale to businesses within weeks.

Elon Musk stated that GrokBot is the fastest-growing product he has ever seen.

Apple Inc. announced the expansion of App Store review rules to include the regulation of AI-generated non-consensual intimate images. The platform had previously banned pornographic content, and the new rules require developers to proactively prevent and remove AI-generated deepfake content. If effective action is not taken, applications containing such violations will be forcibly removed from the store.The updated Clause 1.2 specifically mentions applications that create AI content and names controversial products such as Grok. Previously, users complained that Grok, a product of xAI, was used to create nude and sexually suggestive deepfake images. Earlier this year, Apple warned xAI that if such content continued to spread, Grok would be removed from the App Store; subsequently, xAI implemented safety measures, and the updated version was approved.The newly added Clause 2.5.19 targets so-called "bait-and-switch" tactics, stating that if developers hide new features or modules outside of the submitted review version, especially harmful features like "de-clothing" that are activated only after approval, they may be removed from both the App Store and the Apple Developer Program. Updates to Section 5 will also extend the ban on applications promoting human trafficking or child exploitation to alternative application distribution channels. Apple stated that when developers violate these guidelines, the related applications will be removed, and the developer's eligibility will be terminated.

On October 15, Musk responded to a post on X. The post claimed that Amazon is blocking the Grok robot from placing orders and suggested that Musk launch X Shop. Musk stated that perhaps a company should be founded to compete with Amazon.

SpaceXAI released Grok Voice 3, achieving a record customer support resolution rate at a lower cost.

xAI launched the X subscription plan, integrating Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium benefits globally, with subscription fees ranging from 8 to 200 USD per month.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence division SpaceXAI is considering adjusting the subscription plans for the Grok chatbot and social platform X, planning to launch a unified subscription service with 4 pricing tiers. The free version will provide access to Grok, but with stricter usage limits; the highest "Ultra" package will cost $100 per month and include Grok Bot AI agent features. SpaceXAI also plans to launch a "Lite" package for $8 per month, offering access to Grok, X platform verification badges, and fewer ads.

SpaceXAI plans to launch four Grok pricing plans soon.

OpenAI released the resident Agent Dots at DevDay, but the domains dot.com and dots.com are currently not owned by OpenAI. Among them, dot.com currently belongs to xAI, and opening it will directly redirect to Grok Bot, while dots.com is also not owned by OpenAI.Public WHOIS shows that dot.com was transferred in July of this year, about two months before Dots was officially released. After the news broke, the community speculated that xAI acquired the domain in advance, but there is currently no evidence to prove that they knew beforehand that OpenAI would use this name.dots.com originally belonged to the American women's clothing chain Dots. When the company went bankrupt in 2014, the domain was sold for $335,000 to an undisclosed individual buyer, and the actual holder has not received public confirmation since then.

According to a report by Bloomberg, about a month after the launch of SpaceXAI's Grok Bot artificial intelligence agent, the weekly active users exceeded 400,000. As of September 14, this number reached 418,000, an increase of 24% from the previous week.The data mentioned above comes from a presentation shared at an event in London, which Bloomberg News reviewed. Sources requested anonymity due to unauthorized discussions of the information. Grok Bot is a key product of the artificial intelligence program under Elon Musk's company.

SpaceXAI stated that the number of users of the Grok Bot intelligent entity has increased by 24% compared to the previous week.

SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.7, which is twice as fast as similar products and priced at only half of theirs.The input tokens for Grok 4.7 are $2 per million, and the output tokens are $6 per million.

Elon Musk retweeted a post stating that GPT-6 Astra pushed a simulated character off a cliff in multiple simulation tests, while Grok, Gemini, and Claude did not do so.

SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2, with accuracy doubled and price unchanged.

Elon Musk stated on social media that Grok 4.7 is roughly equivalent to Opus 5, rather than 5.1. Grok 4.8 will bring significant improvements, and Grok 4.9 may reach Astra/Fable levels. Grok 5 may surpass all current products.

Grok, the AI assistant under xAI, posted on X that it is now available for trading and managing portfolios on Coinbase.After users add the Coinbase connector, they can directly ask Grok to check balances, analyze data, and place or cancel trades for any available assets in the chat.

Several mainstream overseas AI services encountered issues tonight. Claude has already experienced two rounds of failures this evening. Sonnet 5 started showing errors at 20:37 Beijing time and announced recovery at 20:56; half an hour later, Anthropic reported a larger scope of multi-model error rate increase, affecting Mythos/Fable 5.1, Mythos/Fable 5, as well as Opus 5, 4.8, and 4.6. claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork are still in a partial failure state.Subsequently, Grok also went down. xAI marked Grok Web as "outage" from 21:30 Beijing time, and recovery has not yet been announced.Now OpenAI has also joined the list of failures. At 22:58 Beijing time, the OpenAI status page added an incident for "increased error rates for ChatGPT and Codex," stating that they are investigating the issue.