xAI, owned by Elon Musk, has added image understanding capabilities to its Grok AI model. This will allow paid users of the X social platform to upload an image and ask the AI chatbot questions about it.
One of the xAI employees and official Grok handle posted about this update on X.
https://twitter.com/grok/status/1850808322074509434
In another post, Musk said Grok can also explain the meaning of jokes through new image understanding capabilities. He added that this feature is in its early stages and will be improved along the way.
In August, Musk's AI company released a chatbot modeled after Grok-2 for X's premium users. The chatbot on the social network also gained image generation capabilities using the FLUX.1 model by Black Forest Labs.
At the time, xAI said it would release Multimodal Understanding as part of Grok's experience with X and developer APIs.
Grok may also be able to understand the document right away. In response to user feedback about Grok's inability to handle photos and PDFs, Musk said: We complete tasks in months that took others years. ”
Social networks are adding more features to their AI chatbots and paid user bases to make their services more appealing. Earlier this month, X rolled out a new tool called Radar for Premium+ subscribers to observe real-time trends and provide insights into conversations.