There is a mobile app for Grok rolling out from xAI on iOS. The standalone app marks a serious step in taking the bot past the confines of X (previously Twitter). Whereas it’s nonetheless solely in beta testing in Australia and just a few different locations, Grok is clearly able to take its place amongst AI chatbot apps like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude.
The mobile app mimics the primary options of Grok and employs the identical Grok-2 AI mannequin. The app will rewrite and summarize textual content, reply questions, and create photos from textual content prompts. It will probably entry real-time knowledge from the net and X as effectively. Grok was beforehand unique to paying X subscribers. However in November, xAI began testing a free model of the chatbot and rolling it out to all customers earlier this month. The corporate is additionally engaged on a devoted web site, Grok.com, which guarantees to make the chatbot much more extensively obtainable.
Grok the image
One in every of Grok’s standout options is its image-generation functionality. xAI claims that Grok excels at “photorealistic rendering,” and not like some opponents, it doesn’t impose strict limitations on what you may create. Grok may analyze footage uploaded by customers. Think about pointing your telephone digicam at a plant and getting immediate insights about its species or well being.
Using the picture generator is attention-grabbing for the reason that Flux AI image creator, relied on by the chatbot on X, has a laid-back approach to copyright and trademark. That has led to folks getting in hassle for making photos of characters like Mario, with Nintendo’s copyright infringement hunter Tracer going after them for infringement. As an alternative, the Grok app might use Aurora, a picture mannequin that xAI very briefly launched earlier than it vanished once more.