xAI Launches Standalone iOS App for Grok Chatbot

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot, expanding its availability beyond X users.

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is currently testing a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was previously accessible only to X users. The app, now live in Australia and a few other countries in beta, can access real-time data from the web and X, offering generative AI features such as text rewriting, summarizing long paragraphs, Q&A, and image generation from text prompts.

According to the app’s listing, “Grok 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.”

xAI is also preparing a dedicated site, Grok.com, to make the chatbot accessible on the web. Currently, the site displays a “coming soon” message when accessed with an xAI account. Grok was initially available only to X’s paying subscribers, but a free version was introduced in November and rolled out to all users earlier this month.

The company claims that its chatbot’s image generator model excels at “photorealistic rendering” and does not impose significant restrictions on image-generation capabilities, allowing users to create images using pictures of public figures and copyrighted material.