Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter) has a built-in chatbot called Grok. xAI is an artificial intelligence company (AI) company founded by Musk in early 2023, about a year after he bought Twitter. Both X and xAI are privately held companies. Grok started as a chatbot within X. Grok 2 was made available for free on X in December.

The AI startup launched its first stand-alone consumer app, as the company tries to catch up with more established players such as OpenAI and Google in the generative AI race.

AI started testing Grok’s standalone iOS app in December in a handful of countries. There’s no word on when it may come to Android. Though Grok was initially only available t