Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is testing a standalone iOS application for its chatbot, Grok, which until now was only available to X users.
The app, currently available in Australia and a few countries in beta, can access real-time data from the Web and X, and offers generative AI features such as text rewriting, summarizing long paragraphs, a bit of Q&A and can generate images from text prompts as well.
“Grok is an AI-powered assistant designed to be as truthful, helpful and curious as possible. Get answers to all your questions, generate striking images, and upload images to better understand your world,” the listing says.
xAI is also preparing a dedicated site, Grok.com, to make the chatbot accessible on the web. Currently, the site says “coming soon” when you log in with an xAI account.
Grok was only available to paid subscribers of X until recently. In November, the company began testing a free version of the chatbot and rolled it out to all users earlier this month.
The company says its chatbot’s image generator model excels at “photorealistic rendering” and does not place major restrictions on its image generation capabilities, allowing users to create images using images of public figures and copyrighted material.
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