After a trial run of X's AI chatbot, Grok, in select areas last month, the social media giant has opened up access to all users earlier this month. Now, it seems that xAI is experimenting with a separate app for Grok in certain regions.
iOS Beta App
According to Techcrunch, the standalone app is exclusively for Apple's iOS and is currently in beta testing in a few countries. Last month, The Wall Street Journal mentioned that X was interested in separating Grok from its main platform and was thinking about creating a standalone application. Along with the app, there's also a dedicated website for the chatbot that states "coming soon."
New Features Added
This month, xAI introduced image generation capabilities to Grok using an autoregressive image model that can skillfully predict token inputs "from interleaved text and image data." It also has the ability to take pre-existing images as input and create new images based on those.
Free Version Access
At the moment, you can use Grok for free, though there are some limitations. The free version restricts users to asking 10 questions every 2 hours and allows for the analysis of three images on a daily basis.
Techcrunch and The Wall Street Journal have reported these developments.
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