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xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API

Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has launched an API. But it's a bit barren at the moment.

In August, Elon Musk’s xAI promised to make Grok, the company’s flagship generative AI model powering a number of features on X, available via an “enterprise API.” Now, that API has arrived — albeit a bare-bones at the moment. Tokens are subdivided bits of raw data, like the syllables “fan,” “tas,” and “tic” in the word “fantastic.” The xAI API supports function calling, letting the Grok models use external tools like databases and search engines.

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