Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence (AI) firm xAI has formally made the Grok mannequin free for everybody, after it was initially launched as a profit for Premium customers of X.
Following xAI’s launch of a picture era mannequin final week, the Musk-run AI firm has now made the Grok mannequin free to make use of, as introduced in a press launch this week. Whereas customers will nonetheless want an X account to make use of the language and picture mannequin, it not requires customers to pay for a verified Premium account.
In a submit on X, the corporate additionally detailed a few of the current developments it has made to the mannequin, together with that it now combines real-time X tales with internet story scraping, together with debuting a brand new quotation function to make it simpler to observe up on sources. The current addition of a picture era mannequin additionally lets customers enter both textual content or their very own photographs, with a view to have Grok create generative photographs in response.
Moreover, X has launched a Grok button on the timeline, letting customers simply entry context and different associated data and analyses for a given submit. The most recent model of Grok can be 3 times sooner than earlier variations, together with together with improved accuracy usually, new multi-lingual performance, and higher capability to observe person directions.
Credit score: xAI
Credit score: xAI
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Grok was initially launched by xAI as a language-only mannequin final November, turning into the corporate’s first product. At first, the mannequin was solely accessible to X customers who paid for a Premium Plus membership for $16 a month, earlier than the platform introduced verification all the way down to a single degree at $8 a month. Nonetheless, Grok has beforehand solely been accessible to paid X customers, although Musk had signaled that that might change sooner or later.
Earlier this 12 months, xAI launched its first visible processing capabilities for Grok, earlier than final week, when it formally launched the Grok picture era mannequin codenamed Aurora. Just some weeks in the past, Musk additionally stated that xAI would quickly launch a standalone Grok app that wouldn’t require customers to be on X to make the most of the mannequin.
Final month, xAI additionally launched the primary public beta for an software programming interface (API) for Grok, formally permitting builders to construct purposes utilizing the mannequin. The corporate additionally says that it’s going to quickly add picture era options to the API, letting builders create photorealistic visuals for his or her apps.
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