XAI is also updating its enterprise API with new Grok models that offer better efficiency and multilingual performance, leading to reduced pricing for input and output tokens. The API will soon include the Aurora image generation model, which was recently integrated into the Grok chatbot experience on X. Aurora is described as a largely unfiltered image AI, and its inclusion in the API is expected in the coming weeks.
Key takeaways:
- xAI has launched an upgraded version of its Grok 2 chatbot model, which is faster and offers improved accuracy, instruction-following, and multilingual capabilities.
- Free users of Grok can ask ten questions every two hours, while subscribers to X's Premium and Premium+ plans have higher usage limits.
- A new "Grok button" has been added to X to help users discover relevant context and engage with trending discussions.
- xAI has reduced the pricing for its enterprise API due to efficiency gains and plans to introduce its image generation model, Aurora, to the API soon.