xAI launches Grok Build; GM cuts IT jobs while hiring AI talent (opens in new tab)

Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok Build, its first AI coding agent, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers; the plan starts at $300 per month. The reports describe the tool as a coding agent and command-line interface for professional software engineering and complex coding work, and identify it as xAI's answer to rival products including Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The launch follows Musk's earlier acknowledgment that xAI had fallen behind competitors in coding and a report that...