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xAI woos developers with $25/month worth of API credits, support for OpenAI, Anthropic SDKs


It doesn't sound like much coming from the world's wealthiest man and multi-billionaire, and it's not really on a per user basis.

Musk previously announced the xAI API was open in beta three weeks ago to the date, but apparently uptake was not enough for his liking, hence the added incentive of free dev credits. It doesn’t sound like much coming from the world’s wealthiest man and multi-billionaire, and it’s not really on a per user basis nor in aggregate, but it may be enough to entice some developers to at least check out xAI’s tools and platform for building apps atop of the Grok models. Also, from my brief test of the xAPI, I was only able to access grok-beta and text only, no image generation capabilities such as those found on Grok 2 (powered by Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 model).

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