X’s Grok AI assistant is now a standalone app

Grok, the AI assistant that is built into X for some reason, is now available as a standalone app. 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 that xAI, the creator of the AI Assistants, described as “humorous and engaging”.

The app was first tested with a limited number of users in December 2024, around the same time that X debuted a free tier of Grok this is available to everyone. Previously, X Premium required you to pay at least $8 per month to use the AI.

The limitations of this free access – 10 requests every two hours, three image analysis requests 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, Google account, or plain old email address. It’s not clear if you get additional benefits with an X Premium subscription in the Grok app in the same way that you do with X.

Grok faced similar problems around accuracy And bizarre ways to create images like other AI assistants like it Gemini And ChatGPT. The chatbot stands out from its competitors primarily thanks to xAI opened it as a way to answer “hard questions” that other AI assistants avoid, and a version of the Grok AI model is open source. You’ll have to see for yourself how “sharp” the Grok app ends up being, but at least now you don’t have to go to X to use it.