Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is experimenting A standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which until now was only available to X users.
The app, currently live in multiple countries including the US, Australia, and India, can access real-time data from the web and X, and offers generative AI features like text rewriting, shortening long paragraphs, a bit of question-and-answer, and the like. making pictures Also from the text prompt.
“Grok is an AI-powered assistant designed to be the most truthful, useful and curious. Get answers to any question, create interesting images and upload images to deepen your understanding of the world,” the listing reads.
xAI is also preparing a dedicated site, Grok.com, to make chatbots accessible on the web. Currently, the site says “coming soon” when you log in with an xAI account.
Grok was until recently only available to X's paying customers. The company in November A free version of the chatbot has begun testingAnd roll it out All users earlier this month.
The company says its chatbot's image generator model excels at “photorealistic rendering” and does not impose major limitations on its image-generation capabilities, allowing users to create images using images of public figures and copyrighted material.
The story has been updated to reflect that the Grok app has launched in beta in multiple countries.
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