X.AI, Elon Musk’s AI company, may be facing a growing lawsuit with OpenAI, but that isn’t halting its product releases—especially on a Friday night.
This evening, xAI announced the rollout of an upgraded version of its flagship Grok 2 chatbot model to all users on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. (X, which Musk also owns, often serves as a testing ground for Grok.) The improved Grok claims to be “three times faster,” offering enhanced accuracy, better instruction-following, and expanded multilingual capabilities, according to a blog post from xAI.
Free users are limited to asking Grok 10 questions every two hours, while subscribers to X’s Premium and Premium+ plans receive higher usage limits.
Additionally, xAI introduced a “Grok button” on X, aimed at helping users access relevant context, stay updated on real-time events, and explore trending discussions. The startup also made several updates to its enterprise API.
xAI’s API now features two new Grok models that boast improved efficiency and multilingual capabilities. As a result of these efficiency improvements, pricing has been reduced—from $5 per million input tokens (~750,000 words) or $15 per million output tokens to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
In the coming weeks, xAI plans to release its image generation model, Aurora, via the API. Aurora, a largely unfiltered image AI, was previously introduced on X this month within the Grok chatbot experience.