xAI changelog: August 2026

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Everything xAI shipped in August 2026, collected from official xAI sources. Each entry is dated and links to the page it came from.

August 2026 at a glance

August 2026 was xAI's 5th busiest month of the 12 months to then: 4 releases, close to its monthly average of 4. That was 1 release fewer than July 2026. Most were Product (2), followed by Developer Tools (1) and Model (1).

Releases

4

-1 vs July 2026

Rank of 12 months

5th

Average 3.8 a month

Most shipped

Product

2 releases

Notable xAI launches in August 2026

  • Model

    Grok 4.6

    Grok 4.6, SpaceXAI's frontier model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, is now available on the xAI API. It has a 500k context window, text and image inputs with text-only output, and no text output limit. Pricing is $2 / $0.50 / $6 per 1M tokens (input / cached input…

    Source: xAI Release Notes
  • Product

    Imagine image API updates

    Auto quality. The quality parameter on grok-imagine-image-2.0 now accepts auto , and the default when quality is omitted has moved from medium to auto . Auto currently uses low for image generation and medium for image editing. Images are billed at the quality they are served at…

    Source: xAI Release Notes
  • Product

    Grok Bot

    Grok Bot is now available. Durable AI teammates that work on a persistent cloud computer, with messaging, approvals, connectors, and routines.

    Source: xAI Release Notes

All xAI releases in August 2026

Newest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.

August 20264 releases

Imagine image API updates

Auto quality. The quality parameter on grok-imagine-image-2.0 now accepts auto , and the default when quality is omitted has moved from medium to auto . Auto currently uses low for image generation and medium for image editing. Images are billed at the quality they are served at…

Grok ImagineProductSource: xAI Release Notes

Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6, SpaceXAI's frontier model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, is now available on the xAI API. It has a 500k context window, text and image inputs with text-only output, and no text output limit. Pricing is $2 / $0.50 / $6 per 1M tokens (input / cached input…

Grok Bot

Grok Bot is now available. Durable AI teammates that work on a persistent cloud computer, with messaging, approvals, connectors, and routines.

Where August 2026 sits

xAI releases per month, for August 2026 and the 11 months before it. A taller bar means more releases that month; the dated entries for each month are on its own page.

Other companies in August 2026

20 of the companies we track shipped in August 2026; xAI ranks 9th by number of releases.

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