X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’
XAI, Elon Musk’s AI firm, could also be embroiled in an escalating lawsuit with OpenAI. However that’s not stopping it from delivery new merchandise — on a Friday night time, no much less.
This night, xAI revealed that it has begun to roll out an upgraded model of its flagship Grok 2 chatbot mannequin to all customers on X, the social community previously often called Twitter. (X, which Musk additionally owns, usually serves as a testing floor of types for Grok.) The improved Grok is “thrice quicker,” xAI claims in a weblog publish, and affords “improved accuracy, instruction-following, and multi-lingual capabilities.”
Free customers can solely ask Grok ten questions each two hours. Subscribers to X’s Premium and Premium+ plans get greater utilization limits.
XAI additionally introduced tonight the addition of a “Grok button” to X, which the corporate says is designed to assist customers uncover “related context, perceive real-time occasions, and dive deeper into trending discussions.”
And the startup stated it’s making a number of modifications to its enterprise API.
XAI’s API has a pair of latest Grok fashions with higher effectivity and multilingual efficiency, xAI says. Because of the effectivity features, pricing has been lowered from $5 per million enter tokens (~750,000 phrases) or $15 per million output tokens to $2 per million enter tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
Within the coming weeks, xAI’s picture era mannequin, Aurora, will come to the API as effectively, xAI says. Aurora, a largely unfiltered picture AI, was launched on X this month within the Grok chatbot expertise.