Three months after Elon Musk announced plans for an AI-generated film version of "The Odyssey," Grok released Episode 1 of the series, running seven minutes. The film was produced with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, and while AI-generated, it was criticized for lacking artistry and human interest.
Elon Musk said that a large amount of compute capacity will remain stranded in partially completed data centers. A post by University of Washington researcher Yuchen Jin cited a friend saying rental prices for H100, B200 and B300 GPUs have risen by 2-3 times. JPMorgan analysis from May showed over 60% of US data centers planned for completion by 2027 have not broken ground.
Convovo researchers found that when forced to choose, SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 recommended Republican candidates in 92% of responses and OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol recommended Democrats in 97%, across nearly 500 races via API tests. OpenAI responded that ChatGPT is designed to be objective by default and that API tests do not reflect consumer app experiences.
Elon Musk said on X that his team is developing Hagglebot, a dedicated negotiation bot for business scenarios, which could improve corporate cost efficiency by more than 5% and save up to $6 trillion annually on a global GDP basis. The statement came in response to a user's post about Grok Bots, who said Haggle Bot saved his team over $100,000 in its first week. No details have been released on its negotiation method, transaction types, launch timeline, pricing, or availability.
Elon Musk expressed support for Anthropic's policy banning users from persistently abusing AI models, saying that after reading Grok's internal reasoning traces from reinforcement learning, he compared the state to a person with a gun to their head, and joked that torturing superintelligence might not be a good idea.
SpaceXAI announced a dedicated email feature for Grok Bot, with addresses ending in @mail.grokbot.com. The email can be used to register services, contact merchants on behalf of users, and schedule appointments. The rollout is gradual, and users can claim an address by requesting it in chat or tagging @bot on X. Earlier, Grok Bot also added capabilities to search and monitor X content and Shopify-related features.
Grok Imagine API has officially launched Video 1.5 Lite, a workhorse model for text-to-video and image-to-video generation, with per-second pricing of $0.02 for 480p, $0.03 for 720p, and $0.14 for 1080p.
Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the Grok Bot agent service will no longer rely solely on its own model, instead selecting from multiple models to give the best answer. Available options include Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno, and Grok 4.7. Simple questions will route to small, fast models; complex ones to large models.
Musk disclosed SpaceXAI's current compute configurations for its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 clusters, saying it will bring 220,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs online in early October 2026, with another 220,000 planned for November and late December 2026, bringing Colossus 2 to 1.1 million GB300 GPUs by year-end. He also noted SpaceXAI's AI research is only three years old and, if momentum holds, it could reach industry leadership in about six months.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7, a new model for coding and professional work, with improved benchmark performance, longer reinforcement-learning training and a new safety mechanism. Pricing remains the same as Grok 4.6 at $2/$6 per million input/output tokens; a 2x-priced fast variant is also available but tokens-per-second figures were not disclosed.