The AI startup launched its first stand-alone consumer app, as the company tries to catch up with more established players such as OpenAI and Google in the generative AI race.

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now.

A little over a year after xAI announced Grok, X's AI-powered assistant, it's now available in the US as a standalone app.

xAI has released their standalone iOS app for the Grok chatbot, just for X users. Spotted first by Tech Crunch, the app is able to perform the same tasks as done by Grok via X, like rewriting, summarising and generating images from text prompts. Users can also access real-time data and news on the app.

Elon Musk's generative artificial intelligence startup xAI officially launched a standalone app of its Grok chatbot on the App Store this week. The rollout of the app, which has been quiet, is essentially the same version of the chatbot that is available to X Premium and Premium+ users.

xAI has released an iOS app in the US for its Grok chatbot, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The standalone app version of the chatbot, which xAI calls a beta, can perform the same functions as the one built into X, as it can field real-time information, answer questions, and generate images.

Grok currently offers regular and 'Fun' modes The Fun mode on Grok provides sarcastic and humorous responses to queries xAI recently started testing a standalone iOS app for Grok

Grok, the AI assistant that's for some reason baked into X, is now available as a standalone app. Like the version that exists as a tab on the social media platform, the Grok app can be used to generate images,

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