Grok, the AI assistant that is for some purpose baked into X, is now out there as a standalone app. Just like the model that exists as a tab on the social media platform, the Grok app can be utilized to generate photographs, summarize textual content and reply questions, with a conversational tone xAI, the AI assistant’s creator, calls “humorous and engaging.”
The app was first examined with a restricted set of customers in December 2024, proper across the similar time X debuted a free tier of Grok that is out there to anybody. Previous to that, you wanted to pay at the least $8 a month for X Premium to have the privilege of utilizing the AI.
The constraints of that free entry — 10 requests each two hours, three picture evaluation request per day — may apply to the Grok app. You should utilize the app with out signing in, or sign-in with an Apple account, X account, Google account, or a plain previous electronic mail. It isn’t clear whether or not an X Premium subscription will get you added advantages within the Grok app in the identical approach it does X.
Grok has struggled with related points round accuracy and weird picture technology selections as different AI assistants like Gemini and ChatGPT. The chatbot primarily stands out from its rivals as a result of xAI pitched it as having the ability to reply “spicy questions” different AI assistants keep away from, and a model of the Grok AI mannequin is open supply. You may must see for your self how “spicy” the Grok app finally is, however at the least you do not have to go to X to make use of it now.
