X’s Grok AI assistant is now a standalone app

Grok, the AI assistant that is for some cause baked into X, is now obtainable 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 photos, summarize textual content and reply questions, with a conversational tone xAI, the AI assistant’s creator, calls “humorous and fascinating.”

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 obtainable to anybody. Previous to that, you wanted to pay at the very 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 manner it does X.

Grok has struggled with related points around accuracy and bizarre image generation choices as different AI assistants like Gemini and ChatGPT. The chatbot primarily stands out from its rivals as a result of xAI pitched it as with the ability to reply “spicy questions” different AI assistants keep away from, and a model of the Grok AI mannequin is open source. You will must see for your self how “spicy” the Grok app finally is, however at the very least you do not have to go to X to make use of it now.