Grok Memory (xAI)

https://x.com/grok/status/1912670182012801156

Extracts and persists facts from past conversations; applies them to future responses. Per-memory deletion UI; user can also clear all. Announced by xAI's official Grok account on 2025-04-17 ('Grok now remembers your conversations').

Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 61 cited facts, 23 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Tier
T1
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS fix
License
not applicable — not OSS fix
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
Freshness
2026-10-29 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix
Licensing
commercial vendor fix
Deployment locus
cloud vendor fix
Platform vs product
product vendor fix

Memory taxonomy

storage
kv
retrieval
injection
persistence
long-term
update
extraction
unit
fact
governance
user-controllable
conflict
llm-arbitrate

When to use

Optimised for: preference distillation + user-deletable

Anti-fit: not for enterprise programmatic use

Pros & cons

Pros

Tied to X timeline data — a corpus no other vendor has access to.

Cons

Privacy framing is weakest of the major platforms; corpus quality varies sharply by user activity.

Claims & capabilities

Beta on grok.com + iOS/Android. Not available in EU or UK. Launched April 2025, expanded 2026.

Technical surface

API surface
not applicable — consumer feature
Backend storage
custom (xAI-managed)
Deployment
Managed-only
Embedding model
not applicable — consumer feature
Multi-tenancy
hard-isolation
MCP
searched not found
A2A
not supported
OpenTelemetry
no — consumer product

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What changed

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  1. 2026-10-29
    • Homepage “https://www.maginative.com/article/xai-upgrades-grok-with-personalized-memory-and-custom-workspaces/” → “https://x.com/grok/status/1912670182012801156”
    • Pricing “Free; SuperGrok ~$30/mo (higher limits, multi-agent)” → “Free; The X Subscription (Grok + Cursor + X): Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo, Ultra $200/mo (annual discounts; team seats on Premium/Super/Ultra); existing SuperGrok plans continue” source
    #307
  2. 2026-10-22
    • Pricing “Free + paid” → “Free; SuperGrok ~$30/mo (higher limits, multi-agent)” source
    • Funding / ownership “xAI $22.1B+ total raised; valuation ~$50B (2025 round)” → “xAI raised $20B Series E (Jan 2026; Valor, StepStone, Fidelity, QIA, Nvidia, Cisco), ~$230B valuation; merged into SpaceX (announced 2026-02-02, combined ~$1T)” source
    #219

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References (1)

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