xAI released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated Odyssey, Musk's answer to Christopher Nolan's hit. Some shots pass for real; critics called the whole thing airless. It doesn't count toward our AI-movie megahit bet, but it shows exactly which gate is hardest.
SpaceX absorbed xAI, IPO'd at $1.77T, and is building a $16.8B fab with Intel. It also rents its biggest datacenter to Anthropic for $1.25B a month. What full-stack ownership delivers, and what it costs.
xAI's new flagship is Opus-class for code at 1/8th the price: trained on real Cursor sessions, 500K context, native tool use. Where it fits.
Grok Build enters the coding agent race against Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot. Why infrastructure matters more than any single model.