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Grok Build shipped in beta as a dedicated agentic coding tool, installable via a single curl command.¹

A new model and CLI for agentic coding — grok-build-0.1 launched in early access as a fast coding model trained specifically for agentic coding tasks.² Grok Build exposed an interactive TUI, headless scripting mode, and an Agent Client Protocol for building orchestrators on top.

Audio APIs reached general availability — Four audio capabilities shipped across the quarter:

• Speech-to-Text launched with transcription in 25 languages, both batch and streaming.³
• Text-to-Speech became generally available for natural-sounding speech generation.⁴
• grok-voice-think-fast-1.0 was added to the Voice Agent API.⁵
• Custom voice cloning shipped: clone a voice from a short audio clip and reuse it across TTS and Voice Agent APIs.⁶

Developer platform additions

• Every API response now includes a cost_in_usd_ticks field in the usage object, covering chat, image, video, and streaming calls.⁷
• The Files API gained TTL support via expires_after or an explicit expires_at timestamp; expired files are automatically deleted.⁸
• The Batch API expanded to cover image generation, image editing, and video generation alongside chat completions.⁹
• Enterprise provisioned throughput became available for dedicated API capacity with guaranteed tokens per minute.¹⁰

Python SDK v1.9.0–v1.15.0 highlights

• Context compaction support added (v1.15.0).¹¹
• enable_image_search flag added to web_search (v1.14.0).¹²
• none and medium reasoning effort levels exposed (v1.12.2).¹³
• Inline file attachments and URL support for FileContent (v1.11.0).¹⁴
• Image and video batch support with input_file_id (v1.9.0).¹⁵