Elon Musk's AI company, XAI, could be embroiled in an escalating lawsuit with OpenAI. But that doesn't stop it from shipping new products on Friday nights.
This evening, xAI revealed that it has begun rolling out an upgraded version of its flagship Grok 2 chatbot model to all users of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. (X, which Musk also owns, often serves as a kind of testing ground for Grok.) The enhanced Grok is “three times faster” and “more accurate, follows instructions, and multi-processes.” xAI claims in a blog post. Language ability. ”
Free users can only ask Grok 10 questions every two hours. Higher usage limits apply to subscribers of X's Premium and Premium+ plans.
XAI also announced tonight that it will be adding a “Grok button” to the X. The company says the button is designed to help users “discover relevant context, understand real-time events, and dive deeper into trending discussions.”
New Grok button. Image credit:xAI
And the startup said it is making some changes to its enterprise API.
XAI's API has two new Grok models with improved efficiency and multilingual performance, xAI says. As a result of efficiency improvements, prices have been reduced from $5 per input token (approximately 750,000 words) or $15 per million output tokens to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens .
xAI says xAI's image generation model Aurora will also be added to the API in the coming weeks. Aurora, a mostly unfiltered image AI, was released on X this month as a Grok chatbot experience.