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In August , Elon Musk ’s xAI promised to makeGrok , the party ’s flagship generative AI model powering a act of feature on X , useable via an API . Now , that API hasarrived — albeit a bit spare - bones at the moment .
ThexAI APIonly has a unmarried model , “ grok - beta , ” priced at $ 5 per million input tokens ( ~750,000 run-in ) or $ 15 per million output tokens . Tokens are subdivided scrap of raw data , like the syllable “ rooter , ” “ tas , ” and “ tic ” in the Holy Scripture “ marvelous . ”
It ’s unclear which Grok model “ grok - genus Beta ” might be ; Grok 2 is the very latest on X. The support for the API refers to Grok 2 and Grok mini , a lightweight and more affordable version of Grok — so it could well be a technical issue .
Some users on 10 alsoreportedencountering problems paying for usage credits .
The xAI API supports affair calling , which connects Grok models to external tools such as databases and search engines . And , although they do n’t appear to be live yet , the documentation hints at vision models subject of psychoanalyze both text and images .
Musk formed xAI last year . Soon after , the company — whichrecently move into OpenAI ’s old billet — release its first Grok model on X to X Premium+ user , who pay $ 16 a month .
Grok has what Musk has identify as “ a rebellious streak ” — a willingness to answer “ zesty questions that are rejected by most other AI systems . ” Told to be vulgar , for example , Grok will happily oblige , spewing profanity and colorful lyric you wo n’t get wind fromChatGPT .
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Grok has become more and more ingrained in the X experience . Thanks to anintegrationwith the open image generator Flux , Grok can generate prototype on X ( without guardrails , polemically ) . It summarizes news and veer events ( oftenwithmistakes , mind you ) , and it mayenhanceX ’s search capableness , account bios , mail analytics , and response functions in the future .
xAI is sprint to catch up to formidable competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic in the generative AI race . In May , xAIraised$6 billion in a funding beat led by investor including Andreessen Horowitz , Sequoia Capital , and Fidelity .
Musk often asserts that X ’s information give xAI a satisfying leg up compared to rivals . This calendar month , Xchangedits privacy policy to let third parties , including xAI , to railroad train models on X posts .
As part of the slant for xAI ’s $ 6 billion backing round , the startup also adumbrate a vision where its model would be trail on data point from Musk ’s various companies , including Tesla , SpaceX , and The Boring Company , and its exemplar could then improve engineering across those companionship .
Tesla shareholders , for one , were n’t on circuit card with that design . Several sued Muskover the decision to start xAI , argue that Musk hasdiverted both talent and resourcesfrom Tesla to what is basically a competing speculation .
