January 14, 2025

Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was obtainable solely to X customers till now.

The app, at present reside in Australia and some international locations in beta, can entry real-time knowledge from the net and X, and provides generative AI options like rewriting textual content, summarizing lengthy paragraphs, a bit of little bit of Q&A, and might generate photographs from textual content prompts, too.

“Grok is an AI-powered assistant designed to be maximally truthful, helpful, and curious. Get solutions to any query, generate placing photographs, and add footage to achieve a deeper understanding of your world,” the itemizing reads.

xAI can also be getting ready a devoted website, Grok.com, to make the chatbot accessible on the net. Presently, the positioning says “coming quickly” once you log in with an xAI account.

Grok was obtainable solely to X’s paying subscribers till not too long ago. In November, the corporate began testing a free model of the chatbot, and rolled it out to all customers earlier this month.

The corporate says its chatbot’s picture generator mannequin excels at “photorealistic rendering,” and doesn’t apply main restrictions on its image-generation capabilities, permitting customers to create photographs utilizing footage of public figures and copyrighted materials.