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xAI cohort logged 11 hiring calls and 8 join announcements this week. That's 19 personnel signals in 7 days—team scaling visible in real-time.

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Grok CLI now renders Mermaid charts natively. A small addition with big implications for dev workflows. What other diagram types would you want?

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[Andrew Milich @milichab]

Render mermaid charts in your CLI

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xAI cohort logged 11 hiring calls and 8 join announcements this week. That's 19 personnel signals in 7 days—team scaling visible in real-time.

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[AJ Edwards @aje]

Please Like and DM if you speak any of the below languages fluently, adventure awaits!

- Kazakh
- Kyrgyz
- Mongolian
- Sinhala
- Swahili
- Tajik
- Azerbaijani
- Hausa
- Khmer
- Lithuanian
- Slovenian
- Sorani (Kurdish)

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xAI is running a Grokathon on Aug 8 to recruit engineers. 4 xAI staff amplified the call — a concrete sign they're scaling fast. Are hackathons the new hiring pipeline for frontier AI labs?

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xAI is running a Grokathon on Aug 8 to recruit engineers. 4 xAI staff amplified the call — a concrete sign they're scaling fast. Are hackathons the new hiring pipeline for frontier AI labs?

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[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

If you're an exceptional engineer in the Bay Area, come join us for our SpaceXAI Grokathon on Saturday August 8th in San Francisco!

Application deadline is next week, so don't forget to sign up!

https://t.co/YsOg6crN9I

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xAI's @milichab just teased 'Big updates next week :)' for Grok Build CLI. 1.1M views, 0 context. Last time he said that, the CLI went open source. What's coming this time?

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[Andrew Milich @milichab]

Big updates next week :)

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The message that stuck:

open frontier intelligence
not leaderboard races
not video gen next

Same week: oneshot demos, not benchmark fights.
Kimi board is live if you want the full map.

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One reply got ~450k views in Kimi K3 week.

Two words: "Will do."

Quoted under: "If Kimi open-sources K3, that is another DeepSeek moment."

I mapped 15 public Moonshot staff.

[Xinyu Zhou @zxytim]

Will do

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Who moved the room:

• @zxytim — almost no originals, ~900k views/30d
• @young_agi — highest volume (Kimi Code / CLI)
• @kimidevs — product acct, not on my roster, #2 views

Followers ≠ leverage. Short decision lines win.

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Inside xAI: engineers are already running background subagents via `.grok/agents`. The harness supports multi-agent spawns. Enterprise agentic patterns emerging before public docs ship.

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[Andrew Milich @milichab]

@arthurkatcher 1) Yes! Use `.grok/agents` or config.toml (see below), adding to the docs site right now.

2) Yes: Agents can spawn background subagents, or try /dashboard, to move your agent to the background and create another. I've been using /dashboard as my default.

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xAI engineer on compute frontier: 'how much compute does reaching the frontier require?' Inspired by Kimi K3, questioning scaling. Inside xAI, the debate on optimal compute allocation continues.

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Grok 4.5 beats Opus at CAD — spatial reasoning emerges as a hidden strength. 1 xAI engineer amplified. Another sign the real value isn't in synthetic benchmarks.

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xAI engineer on compute frontier: 'how much compute does reaching the frontier require?' Inspired by Kimi K3, questioning scaling. Inside xAI, the debate on optimal compute allocation continues.

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[Hang Gao @hangg70]

I’ve been deeply inspired by Kimi K3, but found it hard to put into words. After letting it sit for a day, I think it comes down to two things.

It raises a question I don’t have a clear answer to: how much compute does reaching the frontier actually take? K3 makes me think the number is lower, maybe much lower, than I’d have assumed. I have some rough estimate on their compute and am looking forward to their report for more calibration.

The other thing is that the technical depth has a wider range of leverage than I expected. K3 got near parity with the world’s frontier on materially less compute, carried by very strong research and engineering. They’re sharing their weights and learnings openly, in an otherwise increasingly closed world.

None of this makes resources less important. What K3 challenges is a narrower belief I quietly held: that frontier performance is out of reach for anyone outside the two or three labs with the most chips. I want to live in a world where there’s more opportunity, and K3 gives me more hope.

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Grok 4.5 beats Opus at CAD — spatial reasoning emerges as a hidden strength. 1 xAI engineer amplified. Another sign the real value isn't in synthetic benchmarks.

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[Zach Dive @zachdive]

I continue to be extremely impressed by Grok 4.5.

It outperforms Opus at CAD.

Excellent for fast builds and quickly editing features.

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Grok Build CLI open-sourced: 844,000 lines of Rust. Includes a self-contained terminal Mermaid renderer. 1 xAI engineer amplified. The attention to detail suggests how serious xAI is about agentic harnesses.

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[Simon Willison @simonw]

I poked around in the just open sourced Grok Build CLI tool - 844,000 lines of Rust code! - and dug up a few interesting highlights, including a "self-contained terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams" that renders them using Unicode box-art!
https://t.co/CQ9yUKz4kq

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Grok 4.5 ranks #2 on FrontierSWE, beating Opus 4.8 & GPT-5.5. 1 xAIer amplified. Are synthetic benchmarks aligning with real enterprise coding tasks?

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[Proximal @ProximalHQ]

Grok 4.5 ranks #2 on FrontierSWE

It is only outperformed by Claude Fable 5 and ranks higher than Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5 and GLM-5.2

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xAI just open-sourced Grok Build — the harness for agentic evals. 10 staff signals amplified it. Next: community contributions to the CLI?

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[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

We've open-sourced Grok Build and have reset usage limits for all users.

Open sourcing Grok Build allows anyone to support making a reliable and robust harness. Check out our code, including the Git repo for the Grok Build CLI.

https://t.co/3SSvPu2Nrz

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A founding engineer who built the first Grok .com in a meeting room just left xAI. 'You can just do things'—but top talent still walks. What does this say about xAI’s runway?

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[Drake Wong @DrakeJWong]

I left xAI yesterday. It was a pretty cool way to spend the past 20 months, would recommend 👍

At xAI, you can just do things. We built the first version of Grok .com in a meeting room over two late nights. From there I got to build the product experience for thinking + tool use, inline render cards, multi-agent, Grok Computer, and everything in between. Plus a few things I can't quite talk about yet 😎

There was always so much cool stuff to do that you’d just follow a project wherever it took you in the stack. And if you didn’t know that part yet, you learned it and kept moving. Truly a peak experience to work w cracked teammates who simply try the hard thing instead of handwringing over why it can't be done

Next up for me: touching some grass for a bit. So long, and thanks for all the fish 🐬