SpaceXAI is reportedly launching what the firm purports to be a brand new frontier AI mannequin as early as Wednesday. This one, according to the Information, is the first SpaceXAI mannequin constructed collectively with the AI startup Cursor, which SpaceX is at the moment in the strategy of acquiring for $60 billion. A model of the Grok AI mannequin that shipped in Could did at least incorporate data from Cursor, in accordance to Elon Musk.
Final month, Elon Musk posted on X that his firm’s newest unreleased mannequin, Grok 4.5, was being beta examined behind the scenes at SpaceX and Tesla. He mentioned its efficiency was comparable to some unspecified model of Claude Opus—Anthropic’s tier just under the controversially highly effective Fable.
Grok 4.5, primarily based on our 1.5T V9 basis mannequin, with Cursor knowledge added in supplemental coaching, is now in personal beta at SpaceX & Tesla. Early evals present efficiency shut to, maybe exceeding Opus.
RL is persevering with to considerably enhance the mannequin, and the Grok Construct…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2026
The Data’s report is extra particular, saying the mannequin is being in contrast internally to Claude Opus 4.8, together with OpenAI’s GPT 5.5—the newest GPT mannequin to be launched, though GPT-5.6 exists, and is anticipated to be launched quickly.
Cursor founder Michael Truell made an announcement last month of a mannequin Cursor was working on that might supposedly compete with Frontier fashions from Anthropic and OpenAI. He referred to this as the “subsequent part of the firm” with out instantly stating the mannequin was a undertaking instantly linked to SpaceXAI at the time.
SpaceXAI is a rebranding of the firm previously generally known as xAI. It was announced Monday.
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