xAI shipped public file URLs and stored-file inputs across every Imagine endpoint.

Files API storage became both a share surface and an Imagine input source without re-uploading bytes.

Builders can keep files private for Imagine, or publish revocable links with optional auto-expiry.

• Jul 27, 2026Frontier vendors expanded runtime surfaces while removing public plan and model-routing signals.
• Jul 26, 2026OpenAI updated GPT-5.5 Instant to improve conversational quality in decision, advice, planning, research, and shopping tasks.
• Jul 25, 2026Enterprise and Edu users can find skills under Plugins, on the Skills tab in the Plugin Directory.

This is the world we build in. It moves this fast. We move with it.