Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI launched a Grok app as it seeks to catch up to rivals like Google and OpenAI. Grok, the name of xAI’s flagship chatbot that can be used via Musk’s social media platform X,

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now.

xAI has released an iOS app in the US for its Grok chatbot, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The standalone app version of the chatbot, which xAI calls a beta, can perform the same functions as the one built into X, as it can field real-time information, answer questions, and generate images.

Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup, xAI, launched its first stand-alone consumer app, its latest step as the company tries to catch up with more established players such as OpenAI and Google in the generative AI race.

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has launched its first standalone app for Grok, the chatbot designed to challenge giants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.

xAI has released their standalone iOS app for the Grok chatbot, just for X users. Spotted first by Tech Crunch, the app is able to perform the same tasks as done by Grok via X, like rewriting, summarising and generating images from text prompts. Users can also access real-time data and news on the app.

Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter) has a built-in chatbot called Grok. xAI is an artificial intelligence company (AI) company founded by Musk in early 2023, about a year after he bought Twitter. Both X and xAI are privately held companies. Grok started as a chatbot within X. Grok 2 was made available for free on X in December.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, has launched a new consumer app called Grok, providing users access to the company's chatbot. The Grok app, currently in beta, is available for free on iOS and features xAI's latest model, Grok 2.

A little over a year after xAI announced Grok, X's AI-powered assistant, it's now available in the US as a standalone app.

Elon Musk's generative artificial intelligence startup xAI officially launched a standalone app of its Grok chatbot on the App Store this week. The rollout of the app, which has been quiet, is essentially the same version of the chatbot that is available to X Premium and Premium+ users.