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  • Mar 15, 2026
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    Batch API supports Image and Video generation

    xAI expands Batch API support with image and video generation plus server-side and client-side tools.

    The Batch API now supports image generation, image editing, and video generation in addition to chat completions. Both server-side tools and client-side function tools are also now supported in batch requests. Image and video URLs in batch results expire after 1 hour.

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  • Mar 12, 2026
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    Batch API JSONL file upload

    xAI now supports creating batches by uploading JSONL files via the Files API across chat, image, and video endpoints.

    You can now create batches by uploading a JSONL file via the Files API. Supports all batch endpoints including chat, image, and video in a single file.

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  • Mar 12, 2026
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    Provisioned Throughput is available

    xAI releases enterprise-grade API capacity with guaranteed tokens per minute for dedicated usage.

    Enterprise customers can now purchase dedicated API capacity with guaranteed tokens per minute.

    Learn more.

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  • Mar 10, 2026
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    Grok 4.20 Beta and Grok 4.20 Multi-agent Beta are available

    xAI announces Grok 4.20 Beta now available in the Enterprise API with multi-agent Beta access.

    You can now use Grok 4.20 Beta in the xAI Enterprise API.

    • Grok 4.20 Multi-agent Beta can be accessed through the xAI Enterprise API. For more details, check out the docs
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  • Jan 28, 2026
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    Video Generation & Next-Gen Image Generation

    Video Generation and a revamped Image Generation are now available.

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  • Jan 28, 2026
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    Batch API is released

    Batch API is available for all customers. It enables efficient batch processing of multiple requests, providing a better experience for users who need to submit large volumes of requests at once.

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  • Jan 28, 2026
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    Grok Imagine API

    Grok Imagine API debuts a unified end-to-end video and audio generation suite. Create from images or text, restyle scenes, edit objects, and control motion with fast, cost-efficient workflows. Partners and integrations amplify quick ideation and iteration.

    State-of-the-art video generation across quality, cost, and latency.

    We're excited to unveil the Grok Imagine API, a unified bundle of powerful APIs designed for end-to-end creative workflows. Grok Imagine is our most powerful video-audio generative model yet. Bring an image to life, start from a simple text prompt, or even refine a complex cinematic sequence.

    Video generation

    Grok Imagine has best-in-class instruction following capabilities.

    Video editing

    Restyle scenes, add/remove objects, and control motion.

    Performance and Benchmarks

    We engineered these models to deliver high-quality, native video-audio generation on par with today's top providers, while also optimizing latency, concurrency, and cost—refined through multiple rounds of close partner feedback. One message came through consistently: quality alone is not enough if latency and cost make iteration painful. By improving speed and economics, we enable developers, creative teams, and enterprise workflows to explore multiple directions in parallel—converging faster through rapid, cost-effective experimentation.

    Artificial Analysis: Text-to-Video Rankings

    Video Editing Benchmark

    Grok Imagine consistently outperforms competitors across key evaluation metrics.

    Video Generation

    Transform static images or text into dynamic, high-quality video sequences.

    Cinematic motion understanding

    Transform your photos into cinematic videos with realistic motion, object interactions, and visual continuity.

    Flexible styles & formats

    Support for portrait, landscape, and platform-ready aspect ratios—across flexible clip lengths.

    Imagine for everyone

    Whether you're a creator, educator, influencer, designer, or parent, Grok Imagine makes it easy to bring ideas to life—fast.

    "I have a story in my head—and I want to bring it to life without a full production team."
    Turn ideas into cinematic visuals instantly. Prototype, iterate, and publish faster while staying fully in control of your creative vision.

    Video Editing

    Add, Remove, Swap Objects

    Add an object, remove an unwanted element, or swap out a prop with high precision and consistency.

    Add Performance

    Animate any character with your own performance.

    Scene Control

    Effortlessly transform any scene—switch from golden sunshine to autumn, winter, fog, sunset, or cloudy settings in seconds.

    Object Control

    Edit colors and objects with precision and control for your product showcase.

    Restyle

    Instantly reinvent your footage with any visual style.

    Sketches to Life

    From static black-and-white lines to vibrant, living animations — instantly.

    What our partners are saying

    The Grok Imagine API is available on our partner platforms, alongside our own API.

    "We are thrilled to partner with xAI. Grok Imagine API delivers outstanding video quality with native audio video generation, combining photorealistic realism, strong creative style, and an impressive level of control."

    "The ComfyUI team gravitates strongly toward retro anime and cyberpunk aesthetics, and Grok performs exceptionally well in both text-to-image and image-to-video generation for these styles."

    "Grok is awesome because it helps bring the craziest ideas to life. At a video level grok brings visuals to life with accuracy and fluidity to actions that are prompted as well as to create visuals that are creatively restrictive to make using other models.The Addition of sound and dialogue further help in bringing visuals to life."

    "Imagine API is great at fast, high-quality visual ideation. It’s particularly strong at capturing scene-level style, mood, and physical realism, making it a great fit for early creative exploration and rapid iteration!"

    "We've been integrating Grok into our Video Agent at HeyGen. With Grok's latest video model, you can just prompt edits directly for quick tweaks, empowering our users to iterate on clips in minutes instead of completely leaving it to luck. Excited to see more capabilities unlock from Grok."

    Get Started

    Start building with Grok Imagine API today! We offer:

    • APIs and SDKs for seamless integration
    • Tutorials to jumpstart Grok Imagine projects
    • Hosted console for visual creation and experimentation

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    Open Imagine API Playground

    Open Imagine API SDK

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  • Jan 6, 2026
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    xAI Raises $20B Series E

    xAI announces a record Series E and massive compute expansion powering the world’s largest AI supercomputers and hundreds of millions of users across Grok, X and Grok Voice. The update spotlights active products like Grok 4, Grok Voice, Grok Imagine and a Grok 5 in training with ongoing infrastructure buildout.

    xAI Progress and 2025 Momentum

    xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI.
    xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round, exceeding the $15 billion targeted round size, and raised $20 billion. Investors participating in the round include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX and Baron Capital Group, amongst other key partners. Strategic investors in the round include NVIDIA and Cisco Investments, who continue to support xAI in rapidly scaling our compute infrastructure and buildout of the largest GPU clusters in the world.

    2025 was a year of breakthrough momentum, where the xAI team advanced a multitude of key initiatives including:

    • Data Centers: xAI continues to expand its decisive compute advantage with the world's largest AI supercomputers at Colossus I and II, ending the year with over one million H100 GPU equivalents.
    • Grok 4 Series: our frontier language models are built on the best-in-class training infrastructure powered by Colossus. xAI has pushed reinforcement learning training to unprecedented levels, refining Grok’s intelligence, reasoning, and agency using pretraining-scale compute.
    • Grok Voice: the most intelligent voice agent driving real-time conversations in voice mode and available via agent API. Grok Voice delivers low-latency speech in dozens of languages, tool calling, and real-time data access, serving millions of users across the Grok mobile app and in Tesla vehicles.
    • User metrics: our reach spans approximately 600 million monthly active users across the 𝕏 and Grok apps.
    • Grok Imagine: our lightning-fast image and video generation models that brings state-of-the-art multimodal understanding, editing, and generation capabilities.
    • Grok on 𝕏: leveraging the 𝕏 platform to understand what's happening in the world in real-time, utilizing xAI’s most powerful model to date.

    Looking ahead, Grok 5 is currently in training, and we are focused on launching innovative new consumer and enterprise products that harness the power of Grok, Colossus, and 𝕏 to transform how we live, work, and play.

    This financing will accelerate our world-leading infrastructure buildout, enable the rapid development and deployment of transformative AI products reaching billions of users, and fuel groundbreaking research advancing xAI's core mission: Understanding the Universe.

    xAI is hiring aggressively and seeks mission-oriented individuals ready to join a small team focused on making a transformational impact on the future of humanity. Those interested can apply today at x.ai/careers.

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  • Dec 30, 2025
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    Introducing Grok Business and Grok Enterprise

    Grok goes enterprise with Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, adding SSO, SCIM, advanced security, and Vault encryption. Secure AI ties into Google Drive and company apps with citations and governance. Available today with more improvements coming soon.

    The best assistant in the world is now Enterprise ready.

    Bring Grok to your team with seamless security and speed

    We're putting Grok in the hands of employees everywhere, with enterprise security and privacy built in from the ground up. Your data stays yours: no training on it, ever. You get the highest rate limits on our strongest models, all in a single platform your team can share.
    For small-to-medium teams, we offer a self-serve process to use Grok Business. To support larger organizations, we also offer Grok Enterprise which includes everything in Grok Business plus Custom SSO, Directory Sync (SCIM), and more for seamless organizational management.

    Real business outcomes, built together

    For end-users, Grok Business makes secure AI work feel effortless. You can pull in data from your company's tools like Google Drive and share insights safely with teammates. Links are only accessible by those you share them with.

    Leverage your company knowledge with Grok

    Grok has the ability to access your company knowledge and tools directly with Apps. Starting with Google Drive, your team is guaranteed:

    • Permission-awareness by design. Grok respects your existing Google Drive permissions. If a file isn't shared with you in Drive, you won't see it in Grok.
    • Citations you can trust. Every answer includes citations linking directly to source documents, with quote previews and highlighted relevant sections.
      Grok can also perform agentic search using our industry-leading Collections API via Projects. This is useful for when Grok needs to use a large document store as a primary source, such as a data room for analyzing legal documentation or building financial models.

    Streamline administration with a single, unified platform

    Manage your Grok Business team directly in the xAI console for effortless administration. Invite users, manage access controls, and monitor usage, all in one place.

    Scaling up

    Enterprise tier

    Grok Business is designed to support the smallest businesses to the largest Enterprises. With our Enterprise tier, customers have access to:

    • Custom Single Sign On (SSO)
    • Directory Sync (SCIM)
    • Advanced audit and security controls
    • and more

    Ultimate privacy with Enterprise Vault

    Vault enables our most secure Enterprise customers to use grok.com for all business-critical applications. Not only is data encrypted in transit and at rest, but it's encrypted with your keys, under your control, and isolated from all other customers. Vault supports:

    • Dedicated data plane
    • Application-level encryption
    • Customer managed encryption keys (CMEK)

    Grok Business and Enterprise are available today, with much more coming soon
    Roll out Grok Business to your organization today through our easy self-serve portal. For our Enterprise and Enterprise Vault tiers, our team is excited to get you onboard.
    In the coming months our team will be releasing many improvements:

    • More connections to your company apps to deepen Grok's knowledge base
    • Advanced and customizable agents tailored for your business
    • Improved sharing and collaboration capabilities
      We appreciate our valued customers who have helped inform our roadmap to further distinguish Grok as the best assistant on the market. For current and prospective Enterprise clients interested in shaping the future of Grok, reach out to our team today.

    Pricing and plans:

    • For small teams and businesses: $30 /seat/month

    • Includes Team management, Consolidated Billing, User Analytics

    • For large enterprises:

      • Includes Custom SSO, Directory Sync, Enterprise controls
    • Add on Vault Features:

      • Dedicated data plane
      • Application-level encryption
      • Customer managed encryption keys (CMEK)

    Supercharge your team with frontier AI

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  • Dec 22, 2025
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    Grok Collections API

    Introducing the Collections API to power end‑to‑end RAG in our platform. Upload large datasets from PDFs to codebases, index and search with semantic, keyword or hybrid modes. Free indexing for a week and a clear retrieval price mark a practical launch for fast, scalable knowledge bases.

    State-of-the-art RAG system built directly into our API.

    Today, we're excited to announce Collections API. With Collections, you can upload and search through entire datasets. From PDFs and Excel sheets to entire codebases, you can upload your files into a knowledge base that supports precise and fast search. This allows developers to build RAG applications without the headache of managing indexing and retrieval infrastructure.

    To help you get started, we're making file indexing and storage free for the first week*, with retrieval priced at a flat rate of $2.50 per 1,000 searches.

    Indexing

    • Powerful document understanding: We use OCR and layout-aware parsing to extract text while preserving structure such as the layout of a PDF, hierarchy of an Excel table, or the syntax of code.
    • Smart file management: Easily upload, update, and download files. And when a file changes, our system efficiently reindexes it to ensure your collection is never stale.
    • Broad format support: Collections supports a wide range of file types. (see full list)

    Retrieval

    Choose the retrieval method that best fits your use case:

    • Semantic search: To search using the meaning and intent behind a query.
    • Keyword search: For precise term matching.
    • Hybrid search: For the highest accuracy, combine keyword and semantic search. We support both a dedicated reranker model and reciprocal rank fusion.

    Benchmark Results

    Our Collections API delivers state-of-the-art retrieval performance, matching or outperforming leading models in real-world RAG tasks across finance, legal, and coding domains.

    These fields are especially challenging due to their long, dense documents. To avoid hallucinations and deliver reliable answers, models must retrieve the exact passages and reason over them accurately.

    Accuracy* (Higher is better)

    Task | xAI Grok 4.1 Fast | Google Gemini Pro 3 | OpenAI GPT 5.1
    Finance Tabular and numerical questions | 93.0 | 85.9 | 84.7
    Legal Complex reasoning over multiple chunks | 73.9 | 74.5 | 71.2
    Coding Code understanding and large file systems | 86 | 85 | 81

    *Internal source.

    Financial Analysis

    Extracting tabular and numerical data from files can be challenging with semantic search alone. Hybrid search enables you to accurately retrieve this data from documents such as SEC filings*, allowing the model to precisely reference information.

    Legal Analysis (LegalBench)

    The LegalBench dataset tests retrieval and reasoning over nuanced legal language and complex cross-references, consisting of 128 challenging question-answer pairs drawn from an extensive corpus of authentic commercial contracts across multiple datasets.

    Codebase (DeepCodeBench)

    Code understanding is crucial for applications such as code summarization and generation. We use the DeepCodeBench dataset to comprehensively benchmark for this. It features a diverse set of tasks drawn from real-world open-source repositories, API usage, and complex algorithmic problems.

    Data Privacy

    We do not use user data stored on Collections for model training purposes, unless the user has given consent.

    Start Building

    Code examples and instructions are provided for creating and searching collections, using collections in chat, and direct API usage.

    *You may be charged after the free trial period. We will follow up with more information.

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