Grok news: what changed, month by month

October 2026

• Oct 16: Grok Bot got its biggest update so far, announced by @bot on X: a cleaner interface, faster voice calls, better memory of past chats, email aliases, new connectors (Robinhood, Coinbase, Trello, PostHog, beehiiv and eToro), a connector marketplace, notifications only on the device in use, and X Chat support. Computer tasks run about 3x faster on average, the company says. Details in how Grok Bot works.
• Oct 15: An X user posted that Amazon was blocking Grok Bots from placing orders. Musk replied, “Maybe we should start a competitor to Amazon.” Amazon has not confirmed a block.
• Oct 14: Grok Voice 3.0 launched. It scored 86.9 on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index, the top score, and costs $0.08 per minute. grok-voice-2.0 is deprecated. See the Grok Voice API guide.
• Oct 14: UK regulator Ofcom narrowed its Online Safety Act probe into Grok and X, dropping the child-protection part. Background in our controversies timeline.
• Oct 12: The X Subscription launched, bundling Grok, Cursor and X in one plan: Free, Plus ($8), Premium ($30), Super ($100) and Ultra ($200), with one shared usage pool. It replaces SuperGrok, X Premium and Cursor plans for new buyers. Existing subscribers can switch with prorated refunds. See is Grok free?
• Oct 9: Bots can reportedly claim their own email address at @mail.grokbot.com, with team admins required to enable it.
• Oct 7: The first Illinois biometric privacy (BIPA) lawsuit over Grok’s handling of face photos was filed (Padilla), followed by a second (Wilson) about a week later. Both are allegations. More in our Grok privacy guide.
• Oct 4: Musk confirmed SpaceXAI will become SpaceXSI, for “superintelligence.” A trademark was filed the same day, and the X account became @SpaceXSI by Oct 10. The company has not stated a formal reason for the change.
• Oct 2: grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 reached end of life on the API.

September 2026

• Sep 30: Bloomberg reported that SpaceXAI was weighing a pricing overhaul for Grok and X, which arrived on Oct 12. The same day, Grokipedia v0.3 launched with a redesign.
• Sep 28: “Team Bots” brought shared Grok Bot teammates. A federal judge refused to pause or transfer a deepfake class action against SpaceXAI.
• Sep 25: A safety_identifier request field was added to the API.
• Sep 21: Grok 4.7 was released, with a 500k-token context window and API pricing of $2 input and $6 output per million tokens. Artificial Analysis scores it 46 on its Intelligence Index. A faster version runs only in Cursor and Grok Build. Read our Grok 4.7 guide.
• Sep 17-18: Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 became the default speech-to-text model.
• Sep 16: Memory came to Grok Build, the coding agent.
• Sep 14: Musk said Grok 4.8 (about 2.5 trillion parameters, on a new C++ stack) would finish training “this week.” It had not been released as of Oct 18.
• Sep 3: Grok Bot for Enterprise added enterprise controls.
• Sep 2: Grok Bot arrived on Android. SpaceXSI also scheduled grok-imagine-image-quality to retire on Nov 2, 2026.
• Sep 1: SpaceXSI published “Biosecurity at the frontier.” Reports said the animated companions were moved out of the Grok app the same day; SpaceXSI has not confirmed this.
• September: The US Department of Defense made a customized Grok available on its GenAI.mil platform.

August 2026

• Aug 29: Grok Bot gained an X connection, so Bots can search posts, read your timeline, check mentions, pull trends and manage bookmarks.
• Aug 28: OpenAI said it will wind down model access for SpaceX-owned Cursor, with a proposed shutoff on Nov 12. The Imagine image API added an “auto” quality setting, up to 5 reference images and new aspect ratios. Grok Bot also gained US-only online purchases through Stripe Link, with every spend approved by the user.
• Aug 26: Grok 4.6 came to Microsoft Foundry, and Grok Bot was opened to more plans.
• Aug 21: Grok 4.6 came to Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
• Aug 19: Grok Build came to web and mobile, and Grok 4.6 arrived on Amazon Bedrock.
• Aug 18: A class action (Jane Doe I et al.) was filed in California over alleged sexual deepfakes of children.
• Aug 14: SpaceX closed its acquisition of Cursor.
• Aug 12: Grok 4.6 was released, live in Cursor, Grok Build, Grok Bot and the API.
• Aug 11: Grok Bot, the always-on agent product, launched in beta.

How we pick news

GrokMag editors log changes that affect what Grok can do, what it costs or how it handles your data: model releases, plan and price changes, new features, retirements, regulator actions and court filings. Each item is checked against SpaceXSI’s own announcements or release notes where possible, and against named press reports where not. Claims from Musk’s posts are labeled as his claims, and lawsuits are described as allegations. We do not cover rumors without a named source.