Updated March 27, 2026
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xAI, founded by Elon Musk, builds the Grok series of large language models. Grok is integrated into the X (formerly Twitter) platform and is available through an API for developers. Known for its real-time information access and conversational style, Grok competes with frontier models on reasoning and coding benchmarks. xAI operates one of the world's largest GPU training clusters.
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What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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