A reminder: Across much of the AI industry, user data is retained by default unless you manually change the privacy settings and even then, opt-outs often apply only to future data, may be limited by exceptions buried in the legal fine print, and can be difficult to verify in practice
In other words, โopting outโ does not always mean your data is fully deleted or excluded...the companyโs own way of saying opt-out may not actually match what users reasonably expect in the end
However SpaceXAI just showed what going beyond the industry standard actually looks like
Running "/privacy" in Grok Build to disable retention also deletes all previously synced data...not just data created after changing the setting and prevents future code and session data from being retained
Elon also confirmed that, as a precautionary measure, all user data uploaded to SpaceXAI before now will be completely deleted, with nothing remaining
Yet some people are having a selective outrage meltdown, acting as though AI companies retaining uploaded data is some completely new revelation
Data retention has long been common across major AI products, while manual privacy opt-outs are often buried, limited by exceptions, or focused primarily on future activity
Meanwhile, SpaceXAI is setting a new privacy standard that goes far beyond what the rest of the AI industry currently provides by default
Tomorrow-ish?
Grok Desktop is an unofficial, open-source, local-first desktop app for Grok.
What we mean by that:
โข Works with official Grok / xAI surfaces only
โข Your workspace lives on your machine
โข Chat & projects that survive restarts
โข Agent runs behind explicit approvals
โข Encrypted local state; secrets stay out of the UI
Stack: Electron presentation shell, Rust daemon as source of truth.
Still needs polish, testing, and harness work.
We might open it tomorrow anyway; early, honest, unfinished.
Cross-platform because the community isnโt one OS.
Independent and unofficial, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SpaceXAI.
"๐ is where CEOs, heads of state, and really the most influential people, people who are influences in real life, not online, influences, that is where they go. They don't go to Tiktok. Nobody announces anything important on Tiktok."
ไธ Elon Musk
I was clearly wrong about Anthropic. They are obviously currently the leader in AI. No company has released a model as good as Mythos/Fable and they will undoubtedly have Mythos 2 ready soon.
And I would never cut them off in a way that hurt them badly, even as a competitor. Thatโs not my style.
Tesla open sourced its patents and we made the Supercharger network available to all competitors, even though we could have made it a walled garden.
SpaceX launches competing satellite systems with no increase in price or use of unfair terms.
Even my worst enemies can attack me on this platform.
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The upcoming wave of SpaceXAI Grok updates is insane
Grok 4.5:
The 1.5T foundation model is being refined almost daily, and its context window is expected to jump to 1M tokens, possibly as soon as next week
Next model:
The 2T foundation model is expected to finish training this month and become available to customers next month
Grok Build:
The harness is getting refinements almost every day based on user feedback. New features, fixes, and workflow improvements are landing at ridiculous speed
Inference:
SpaceXAI is working on internally developed C/C++ inference mapped directly to GB300 hardware, which could double speed or more
Agentic Imagine:
Grok will be able to call Imagine as a tool in agentic mode for image and video generation
That is going to be huge for game developers, designers, builders, and anyone creating interactive worlds
But the biggest thing is this:
Grok is being built for real-world engineering
Grok 4.5 early beta access was given to Tesla and SpaceX engineers, with feedback coming from real engineering teams solving real-world problems
Next monthโs release is expected to be another massive step-change improvement as SpaceXAI closes the loop on real-world engineering problems at Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and Boring Company
And from now through the end of 2026, Elon said a new from-scratch foundation model is expected to ship every month
The Fibonacci sequence (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13โฆ) isnโt just math โ itโs a universal pattern. As it grows, ratios of terms approach the Golden Ratio (ฮฆ โ1.618), a harmony found in spirals, plants, shells, galaxies & even DNA.
[๐๏ธ thevisualalchemy]
Rate of improvement is accelerating.
Users should notice a meaningful improvement in the usefulness of the Grok Build harness with our V9 foundation model (aka Grok 4.5) every week.
Grok 4.5 High just ranked #4 on Artificial Analysis with a score of 54, right next to GPT-5.5 Xhigh at 55 and Claude Opus 4.8 Max at 56
Grok 4.5 is now officially back in the Top Frontier league
I actually love it when people laugh, mock, IM TOO EXTREME BLAH BALH
I really do.
Every time it happens, I just think...
"Remember when everyone laughed at you growing up... then 2020 happened?" ๐
Feels like the exact same rerun.
Only difference is, this time I brought popcornโฆ
because 2030 ainโt that far away. ๐ฟ