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Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the 'best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno' (Grace Kay/The Information)
Grace Kay / The Information: Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that Spac
Grace Kay / The Information: Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that SpaceX's AI unit will now use some AI models from competitors to power Grok Bot, signaling a shift away …
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- Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off (Grace Kay/The Information)
- xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
- SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities
- Interesting comparison of Grok & Opus 1M+ context window coming soon
Source: Techmeme | 2026-10-07