xAI now lets requests set `service_tier: "priority"` on text, image, and video inference endpoints.

Priority is now request-level, with billing applied only when the priority tier is actually used.

The response reports the applied tier, so builders can verify scheduling priority per call across supported inference endpoints.

• 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.