X’s Grok AI assistant is now a standalone app

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X’s Grok AI assistant is now a standalone app

Grok, the AI assistant that’s for some reason baked into X, is now available as

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. Like the version that exists as a tab on the social media platform, the Grok app can be used to generate images, summarize text and answer questions, with a conversational tone xAI, the AI assistant’s creator, calls “humorous and engaging.”

The app was first tested with a limited set of users in December 2024, right around the same time X debuted a free tier of Grok that’s available to anyone. Prior to that, you needed to pay at least $8 a month for X Premium to have the privilege of using the AI.

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The limitations of that free access — 10 requests every two hours, three image analysis request per day — may also apply to the Grok app. You can use the app without signing in, or sign-in with an Apple account, X account,

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account, or a plain old email. It’s not clear whether an X Premium subscription gets you added benefits in the Grok app in the same way it does X.

Grok has struggled with similar issues around accuracy and

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as other AI assistants like Gemini and

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. The chatbot mainly stands out from its competitors because xAI

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as being able to answer “spicy questions” other AI assistants avoid, and a version of the Grok AI model is open source. You’ll have to see for yourself how “spicy” the Grok app ultimately is, but at least you don’t have to go to X to use it now.

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