Tooling68d ago
xAI brings Grok Voice to LiveKit: STT, Grok 4.3, and TTS in one ZDR AgentSession
SpaceXAI said Grok Voice models can now be used in LiveKit to build voice agents with full zero-data-retention support. LiveKit showed a patient-intake agent that cascades Grok STT, Grok 4.3, and Grok TTS through LiveKit Inference in a single AgentSession, with one set of credentials and billing. For developers, that is a three-string voice stack instead of a glued-together ASR, LLM, and TTS bill.
Tooling2d ago
xAI will add an invisible watermark to Grok API text by default from Nov 7, covering grok-4.7 and six other models, with per-model admin opt-out
On Oct 31, xAI (signed as SpaceXSI in its docs) added an "Output Watermarking" page to its API docs: starting November 7, 2026, text generated by grok-4.7, grok-4.6, grok-4.5, grok-4.3, and the reasoning, non-reasoning, and multi-agent versions of grok-4.20 will carry an invisible watermark by default, to comply with the EU AI Act. It covers ordinary text, structured outputs, and tool call arguments on both the Responses and Chat Completions APIs, and works by slightly shaping token choice without adding any characters. Developers can read the x-watermark response header to check; team admins can opt out per model in the Console, but must confirm a legal exception applies, and some models may be locked on.
Benchmark48d ago
Artificial Analysis: GPT-Live-1 (Astra) tops Speech to Speech Index at 81.5
Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) published its Speech to Speech Index: OpenAI GPT-Live-1 with Astra (medium) as the delegated backend debuts at #1 with 81.5, while Sol (low) scores 80.1 at #3, with Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High between them at 81.3. GPT-Live-1 is a full-duplex speech model that can delegate reasoning and tool use to a backend text model mid-conversation. The same drop covers Speech Agent Arena, Tau Voice, Big Bench Audio, plus cost and time-to-first-audio.
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