xAI, founded in 2023 by Elon Musk, is an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Palo Alto with additional offices in Seattle, Memphis, and London. The firm builds frontier AI models across reasoning, voice, image generation, and video. Its flagship product is the Grok AI assistant, which provides chat, image creation, code writing, and real-time web-based answers, handling over 300 million queries and more than 1 million API calls per day.
The company operates the Colossus supercluster, which runs on over 200,000 GPUs. xAI also offers a Unified API that gives developers access to its full suite of models. Technical work spans large language models, supercomputing, and multimodal AI systems. The organization emphasizes first-principles reasoning and rapid iteration, with a culture that prioritizes in-person collaboration.
