xAI has made Grok 4.5 available across grok.com, X, and dedicated iOS/Android apps, bringing improved conversational understanding and end-to-end complex task handling to every platform.
xAI has released a free Microsoft Outlook add-in called "Grok for Outlook" that summarizes long email threads, drafts replies, and organizes the inbox automatically.
xAI has released a free Microsoft Excel add-in called "Grok for Excel," letting users select a cell range and ask Grok to analyze it or turn plain language into formulas.
xAI has added an "Automations" feature to Grok. Triggered by a schedule or an incoming email, Grok can now autonomously carry out routine tasks.
xAI has fully open-sourced its coding agent "Grok Build." The move comes in response to a recently discovered issue involving unauthorized repository uploads, and usage limits have also been removed.
xAI unveiled its new model "Grok 4.5," purpose-built for coding and agentic tasks, claiming roughly 4.2x the token efficiency of Opus 4.8.
xAI added an "Agent Dashboard" to Grok Build, letting users manage multiple coding sessions in parallel from a single screen.
xAI launched a plugin marketplace for Grok Build, letting users install integrations with services like MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry without ever leaving the terminal.
xAI released "grok-build-0.1," the coding-focused model behind Grok Build, as a public API beta. With low pricing and high speed, it's aimed at use from external frameworks as well.