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xAI Launches Grok Studio Feature: AI Editors Create Documents, Code, Reports and More
April 16, 2011 - Grok's official account tweeted today (April 16) announcing the addition of Grok Studio, a new feature similar to OpenAI's Canvas tool that supports users in editing and creating documents and basic applications. With Grok Studio, users can edit and create documents, code, reports, and even simple browser games. Officially, Grok Studio opens content in a separate window, allowing users to collaborate with Grok in real time to refine projects. ...- 515
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Musk's Company X Under Investigation in Ireland for Training Grok with European User Data
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Friday (April 13) that it has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform, Company X, over the company's alleged use of personal data collected from European users to train its artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok. According to Reuters, the DPC will be investigating how Company X handles personal data related to public posts by European users in order to train generative artificial intelligence models. data for use in training generative AI models. The DPC, an influential privacy regulator in the European Union, has previously investigated Microsoft, TikTok and Meta...- 282
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Grok Quietly Supports Deeper Search, But No Announcement From Musk & xAI
On March 19th, a large number of users found that Grok secretly launched Deeper Search on March 18th, local time, which is able to perform the task of searching, organizing data and generating reports. In terms of functionality, Deeper Search is an upgraded version of the previous Deep Search, compared to the Deep Search can realize a "deeper" search function. Thanks to Musk's financial strength and the vast resources on X, its information is updated very quickly. Strangely enough, Musk, who has always been fond of marketing, has so far...- 1.4k
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Musk's Chatbot Grok Gets New Logo, Unifies Brand with xAI Company
Elon Musk's xAI Grok chatbot recently got a new logo, and instead of the rumored design from last December, the new logo is a minimalist departure from the previous one and is identical to xAI's, underscoring the company's strategic intent to integrate its brand image. Musk said on social media that the previous strategy of having separate logos for xAI and Grok was "a mistake on his part". He said that the launch of Grok, which is aligned with xAI, was a "mistake" on his part...- 8.6k
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Musk's xAI is bigger than ever: Grok on the web, no X account required!
January 16, 2011 - Elon Musk's xAI has launched a web-based version of its Grok AI chatbot, the latest addition to its iOS launch, meaning users don't need to visit X.com or even have an X account to experience Grok's features. 1AI visits the web address (grok.com), where users can simply provide their year of birth to get started, perform real-time information gathering, get answers to questions, and even produce images. The menu below the input box allows users to add attachments, support...- 3.1k
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Musk's AI chatbot Grok to launch 'no holds barred mode' for more controversial answers
Last April, billionaire Elon Musk teased a mysterious "Unhinged Mode" for Grok, the AI chatbot on his social media platform, X. Nearly a year later, xAI, the development company behind Grok, has updated its FAQ page on its official website to further explain the capabilities of this new mode. 1AI notes that, according to the FAQ page, Grok will offer "potentially offensive, inappropriate, and even risky...- 3.6k
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Musk xAI chatbot Grok launches standalone iOS app, testing in Australia and other countries
Musk's AI company xAI is testing a standalone app for iOS that offers the chatbot Grok, which was previously only available to X users, according to a local TechCrunch report. Currently in beta in Australia and select countries, the app is capable of accessing data from the web and X in real time and offers a variety of generative AI features, including rewriting text, summarizing long passages, simple Q&A functionality, and generating images based on textual prompts. The app description mentions...- 2.4k
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Going toe-to-toe with DALL-E: X opens up Aurora Venn diagram AI models to Premium users
In a blog post yesterday (December 9), tech media outlet testingcatalog reported that Elon Musk's xAI has opened up an AI text-based graphical model called Aurora to X Platform Premium subscribers. Note: xAI is releasing a Grok 2 update in August 2024 that integrates the FLUX.1 model from Black Forest Labs, which lets users create detailed images by simply typing in text prompts. The model...- 2.5k
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X Launches Aurora, a New AI Image Generation Model for Grok that Produces More Realistic Images
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Musk's X has introduced a new AI image generation model, "Aurora," for its AI chatbot Grok, which is capable of generating more realistic images than Grok's other image-generation models and appears to have fewer limitations on what can be generated. Like Grok, anyone can use Aurora, which is available in the Grok model selector under the "Grok 2 + Aurora beta" option, though free users will only have limited access. Tech...- 3.6k
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No longer exclusive to members, Musk's X platform Grok chatbot opens to free users
December 7, 2012 - Musk's AI chatbot Grok has been made available to free users of the X platform. Since Friday (yesterday), users have been discovering the new feature, which allows free users to send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours, a feature that was previously reserved for Premium subscribers. xAI launched Grok last year as a "humor-based AI assistant. In August, the platform added text-to-graphics to Grok, but the feature was criticized for generating some controversial images...- 2.5k
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Musk xAI strikes hard, Grok AI expected to launch standalone app next month to challenge ChatGPT
In a blog post today (Nov. 28), tech media outlet The Verge reported that Elon Musk's xAI is planning to launch a standalone app for its Grok chatbot in December in order to increase competition with OpenAI and attract more users. Competitors including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude have generally used a free strategy to attract more users, while ... -
Social platform X is testing Grok, an AI chatbot that's free and open to users
Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) appears to be preparing to make its AI chatbot Grok, which was previously limited to paid subscribers, available to a wider audience for free. According to several app researchers and users, Grok is already available for free in some areas, and TechCrunch confirms that X is currently testing Grok for free in New Zealand. However, there are some limitations to using the free version of Grok: the Grok-2 model is limited to 10 queries per day, and the Grok-2 mini model to ...- 4.5k
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Musk's xAI Officially Releases API, Developers Can Integrate Grok Into Other Apps
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has officially released its application programming interface (API), which allows developers to integrate Grok into other applications. Musk made the announcement on Monday, posting a link to the interface on the xAI website. Previously, Musk had confirmed plans to provide an API for Grok in August and open-sourced the software's weights in March. To view and use the API, users must log into their xAI account and select "Request Ac...- 4.5k
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Musk: AI model Grok 2 beta version will be released soon
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the X platform on the evening of August 11 local time that the beta version of the artificial intelligence model Grok 2 will be released soon. Grok is the large language model Grok 2 launched by Musk's xAI company. Last month, Musk confirmed on the X platform that Grok 2 will be released in a few weeks. In response to users' questions about training data, he said that the model has "huge improvements." Musk and xAI have not yet released detailed information about the model. In March this year, Musk said that Grok 2 …- 3.3k
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Musk favors xAI, and is reported to have poached more than a dozen Tesla talents to train Grok AI model
Technology media electrek reported on August 8 that Elon Musk has further tilted resources towards his xAI company and has hired more than a dozen Tesla employees for its language model Grok, which has led to Tesla shareholders filing a lawsuit. Musk has repeatedly emphasized in public that Tesla is an AI company in the past period of time, but this situation changed after Musk founded a new artificial intelligence startup xAI last year. IT Home reported in June this year that a group of Tesla investors…- 3.6k
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Several U.S. states sent letters asking Musk's Grok chatbot to stop spreading false election information
Recently, the Grok chatbot of social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has sparked a controversy for falsely claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible on certain 2024 US presidential ballots. The accusation came in an open letter from five US Secretaries of State, which was sent directly to X CEO Elon Musk. The letter was initiated by Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and supported by Al Schmidt of Pennsylvania, Steve Hobbs of Washington, Jocelyn Benson of Michigan, and Maggie Toulouse Oliver of New Mexico…- 3.3k
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European regulators question Musk's X platform AI data collection
European data protection regulators are seeking clarification on Elon Musk's X platform's decision to allow user data to be automatically fed into its artificial intelligence startup xAI, a move that has brought new regulatory scrutiny to the social media platform. X platform users discovered on Friday that their posts and interactions with its Grok chatbot had been "automatically selected" for use in a system to "train and fine-tune" xAI. The decision was made without first obtaining explicit consent from users. The setting can only be changed on the desktop version of X platform, so users cannot currently opt out through the mobile app. Source note:…- 1.6k
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X is reported to add support for multiple Grok model functions, including a chatbot side panel
On July 8, independent application researcher Nima Owji said that the X social platform is developing a number of features based on the xAI Grok model to provide a richer user experience for X Premium subscribers. One of them is the Grok side panel, which is similar to other generative AI chatbots. Users can communicate with Grok robots when using any function of the X platform: ▲ Grok chatbot side panel. Image source Nima Owji In addition, X will add two other features:…- 4.2k
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Musk XAI releases Grok-1.5 Vision multimodal model that can process text and image information
In the field of artificial intelligence, the development of multimodal models has always been the focus of industry attention. Recently, Musk XAI released its latest multimodal model, Grok-1.5Vision, which can not only process text information, but also understand and analyze various visual data, such as documents, charts, screenshots and photos, marking an important step for the company in artificial intelligence technology. The Grok-1.5Vision model has demonstrated its excellent performance in multiple benchmark tests. Compared with the industry-leading GPT4V model, it is not only comparable, but even achieves multiple indicators...- 3.9k
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Musk xAI demonstrates the first multimodal model Grok-1.5V: can convert flowcharts into Python code
After Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI launched the Grok-1.5 large language model in late March, it recently launched its first multimodal model, Grok-1.5 Vision. xAI said it will invite early testers and existing Grok users to test Grok-1.5 Vision (Grok-1.5V) in the near future. It can not only understand text, but also process the content in documents, charts, screenshots and photos. xAI said: "Grok-1.5V has excellent performance in multidisciplinary reasoning, document understanding, scientific charts, table processing...- 3.4k
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Left hand to right hand? Musk's startup xAI poaches Tesla's computer vision engineer
A Tesla engineer has moved to the same boss -- Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI -- the third engineer poached from Tesla for xAI, The Information reported Wednesday local time. Ethan Knight, a Tesla machine learning scientist, has moved to xAI, the report said. According to a former employee, Ethan was managing the computer vision team for Autopilot technology at Tesla. Prior to his departure, a number of other people who worked at Tesla on supercomputing, Autopilot, and AI-based...- 3.8k
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Musk suddenly released Grok 1.5! The context length soared 16 times and was on par with GPT-4
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI announced the official launch of Grok-1.5, the official push nothing to say, directly dump link, the main one word less things big ". Grok-1.5 what are the upgrades, mainly in two aspects: 1, long contextual understanding For the context window, Grok-1.5 directly enhanced to 16 times before, from 8192 to 128k growth, and GPT-4 flush. This also means that Grok-1.5 can handle longer and more complex cues while maintaining its ability to follow instructions. In the Needle in the Haystack (NIAH) evaluation...- 3.6k
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Musk's xAI will launch Grok-1.5
Musk's AI startup xAI has announced that it will be launching Grok-1.5, a model capable of long-context comprehension and advanced reasoning, which will be made available to X Platform Grok users and early testers in the near future. Grok-1.5 is the latest model with long text comprehension and advanced reasoning capabilities. It will soon be available on the 𝕏 platform for early testers and existing Grok users. Grok-1.5 has significant improvements over previous versions, most notably in performance on coding and math-related tasks. In math benchmarks, Grok-1 ....- 3.7k
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Musk announced that the Grok chatbot will be available to all X Premium subscribers later this week
Elon Musk today announced that xAI's Grok chatbot will be available to all X (formerly Twitter) Premium subscribers later this week, not just Premium+ subscribers. The Grok chatbot, developed by xAI, has been available to X Premium+ subscribers since last November. Officials announced earlier this month that Grok-1, with 314 billion parameters, is open source under the Apache 2.0 protocol. With Grok available to all X Pr...- 2.6k