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Reading order for Brocker’s xAI Grok Architecture coverage (living series — still updating):
NVIDIA began delivering its first agent-optimized Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure this week. The move signals a strategic push to own the full inference stack as enterprises shift from experimental AI to production agent deployments.
On 13 August 2026 xAI expanded github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm with ranking weights, visibility-filtering code, and Phoenix training — Apache 2.0, not a leak. Open ranking code is not a full production feed.
Cursor has been acquired by SpaceX, completing an April partnership and gaining access to the largest GPU fleet for model training. Grok 4.6 launches as the first joint model, matching GPT-5.6 Sol on key benchmarks and available now in Cursor.
SpaceXAI, the AI division formed from Elon Musk's xAI after its merger with SpaceX, has launched Grok Bot in beta — a product it describes as "always-on. Grok Bot arrives as the industry converges on "digital labor" — agents that do.
xAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, making the model generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and inside. The Arena placement puts xAI's image line in direct competition with OpenAI and Google's.