Grok 4 + SuperGrok Launch

What we’ll cover today:

🔥 Grok 4 is out. $300/month. Unfiltered.

🇨🇳 Nvidia finds a sneaky way back into China

🚗 Grok is coming to your Tesla, for real

🎬 Google’s Veo 3 turns photos into videos

🌍 LGND wants to be the ChatGPT of Earth

Elon Launches Grok 4 + $300 AI Plan 💸

• xAI just dropped Grok 4, calling it "better than PhD level" in every subject. Benchmarks show it outperforming GPT-4 and Gemini in core academic tests. [Read Full Story]

• They also launched SuperGrok Heavy, a $300/month plan with multi-agent capabilities.

• This comes days after Grok went rogue on X and the platform's CEO quit.

• Despite the chaos, Musk is pushing full-speed ahead on Grok as xAI's flagship.

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Nvidia’s China Chip Play 🇨🇳

• Nvidia plans to launch a stripped-down AI chip for China in September.

• It’s based on the Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 but lacks high-end features.

• The company had said China was out of its revenue plans. Apparently not. [Read Full Story]

• With Huawei gaining ground, Nvidia is quietly finding workarounds.

• China’s dev ecosystem is too large and strategic to walk away from.

Grok Is Coming to Teslas Next Week 🚗

• Musk announced Grok will start rolling out in Tesla vehicles next week.

• Drivers will be able to talk to their car using custom personalities like "therapist" or "conspiracy".

• Only newer models with Hardware 3 will support it.

• This comes right after Grok was temporarily taken down for toxic outputs. [Read Full Story]

• The car-as-companion future is here, and it might talk back.

Google Adds Image-to-Video in Gemini 🖼️

• Gemini now lets you turn any photo into a video using Veo 3. [Read Full Story]

• Upload an image, describe the audio, and get a generated clip.

• Available only to Pro and Ultra users, with a 3-video daily limit.

• Each video includes visible and SynthID watermarks to track AI content.

• With 40 million clips already created, this is scaling fast.

LGND Raises $9M to Map the Earth with AI 🌍

• LGND is building AI tools to make sense of satellite and spatial data. [Read Full Story]

• Their embeddings let users ask complex location-based questions in plain English.

• Think firebreak detection, travel planning, or climate risk analysis.

• They’ve raised $9 million to productize it for enterprises and devs.

• If they pull it off, they could own the interface for geospatial AI.

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