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Elon Musk’s xAI launches API, letting third-party developers build atop Grok

Attention, developers: you can now get your hands on Elon Musk's Grok 2 multimodal language model through his startup xAI's new API.

Elon Musk has been making headlines recently for his political activities and rocket launches, but that hasn’t stopped the six-company owner/operator from moving forward with xAI, his artificial intelligence startup. However, in my limited test of it, I was only able to access a model named “Grok-beta.” Notably, the entire API website is labeled at the top as a “public beta,” so presumably the xAI developers and engineers will be working out various bugs and adding new features in the coming days. Whether devs flock to xAI’s API and adopt it alongside or in place of other compelling alternatives in the gen AI age such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and more, remains to be seen.

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