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xAI Releases Grok Skills and Updates Tool Calling Responses API

xAI just shipped persistent memory for Grok. Custom expertise now sticks across all conversations.

Reporting by InfoQ AI/ML 1 min brief
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Why it matters

xAI is expanding Grok's product surface with stateful skills and enhanced API tooling, positioning it as a competitive alternative to OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude in the enterprise application layer.

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4 to know

  1. Grok Skills: persistent custom expertise retained across conversations

  2. Responses API enhancements for Grok 4.3

  3. Feature targets multi-turn, context-aware enterprise workflows

  4. Release date: May 22, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: xAI has released Grok Skills together with enhancements to the Responses API for Grok 4.3, enabling persistent custom expertise that the model retains across all conversations. By Daniel Dominguez
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