xAI to rollout smarter Grok chatbot on X
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xAI, the artificial intelligence startup led by Elon Musk, announced significant updates to its flagship chatbot, Grok, and other AI offerings, signaling the company’s drive to expand its footprint in the AI industry. On the eve of December 13, the company revealed that it has begun rolling out an upgraded version of its Grok 2 chatbot model to users on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which Musk also owns. According to a report from TechCrunch, the enhanced Grok is “three times faster” than its predecessor and boasts “improved accuracy, instruction-following, and multilingual capabilities.” X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’ https://t.co/QZCKleQagD — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) December 14, 2024 Grok leverages the X platform to deliver real-time insights by integrating web search and citations. These features allow the AI model to draw from posts on X and broader internet sources, providing timely and context-rich responses to user queries. The chatbot will also reportedly integrate a new “Grok button” on X, which aims to help users explore trending discussions, gain deeper insights into current events, and find relevant context. Grok AI announces API changes In addition to the consumer-facing updates, xAI announced major changes to its enterprise API. Two new Grok models have been introduced, featuring improved efficiency and enhanced multilingual capabilities. As a result, the company has reduced pricing for API usage, slashing input token costs from $5 to $2 per million tokens and output token costs from $15 to $10 per million tokens. Each token corresponds to approximately four characters of text. The upgraded API will also soon include xAI’s image generation model, Aurora. Aurora debuted on X this month as part of the Grok chatbot experience. It offers users a largely unfiltered image-generation capability, further expanding xAI’s creative tools. xAI launched its…
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