{"id":1071,"date":"2024-12-23T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2024-12-23T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:00:59","slug":"xai-is-testing-a-standalone-ios-app-for-its-grok-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/xai-is-testing-a-standalone-ios-app-for-its-grok-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk\u2019s AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The app, currently live in Australia and a few countries in beta, can access real-time data from the web and X, and offers generative AI features like rewriting text, summarizing long paragraphs, a little bit of Q&amp;A, and can generate images from text prompts, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGrok is an AI-powered assistant designed to be maximally truthful, useful, and curious. Get answers to any question, generate striking images, and upload pictures to gain a deeper understanding of your world,\u201d the listing reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xAI is also preparing a dedicated site, Grok.com, to make the chatbot accessible on the web. Currently, the site says \u201ccoming soon\u201d when you log in with an xAI account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grok was available only to X\u2019s paying subscribers until recently. In November, the company started testing a free version of the chatbot, and rolled it out to all users earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company says its chatbot\u2019s image generator model excels at \u201cphotorealistic rendering,\u201d and doesn\u2019t apply major restrictions on its image-generation capabilities, allowing users to create images using pictures of public figures and copyrighted material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now. The app, currently live in Australia and a few countries in beta, can access real-time data from the web and X, and offers generative AI features like rewriting text, summarizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timesofmedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}