AI Competition

SpaceRock coverage of AI Competition.

• Grok Bot: The New Wave of AI Agents

  xAI rolled out Grok Bot in beta on August 11. Their positioning is not timid – these are not assistants. These are teammates, to which you give a name, say what to do, and they mak

• Stripe Deepens Its AI Push With New OpenRouter Deal

  About Stripe Stripe, LLC is an American multinational financial services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States.

• China Isn’t Catching Up in AI. It’s Breaking Away.

  America’s approach to Chinese AI for years was relatively simple: Keep the best chips out, deny access to crucial technology, and keep piling more companies onto entity lists if ne

• OpenAI Buys AMD Chips in 5-Year Deal to Challenge Nvidia

  AMD Challenges Nvidia with Massive OpenAI Chip Deal AMD is partnering with OpenAI to supply six gigawatts of processors for AI data centers, directly challenging Nvidia’s dominance