Elon Musk’s AI company XAI may be embroiled in a lawsuit against OpenAI. But Friday nights don’t stop new product deliveries.
This evening, xAI said 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.) xAI claims in a blog post that the improved Grok is “three times faster” and “offers improved accuracy, instruction-following, and multitasking.” “Language skills.”
Free users can only ask Grok 10 questions every 2 hours. Subscribers to X’s Premium and Premium+ plans have higher usage limits.
XAI also announced tonight that it is adding a “Grok Button” to X. The button is designed to help users “discover relevant context, understand real-time events, and dive deeper into cutting-edge discussions.”
And the startup said it is making several changes to its enterprise API.
XAI’s API features a pair of new Grok models with better efficiency and multilingual performance, xAI says. Due to increased efficiency, the price has been reduced from $5 per million input tokens (~750,000 words) or $15 per million output tokens to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
In the coming weeks, xAI’s image creation model, Aurora, will also be included in the API, xAI says. Aurora, an unfiltered image AI, launched on X this month with the Grok chatbot experience.
