xAI announced Grok, X’s AI-powered assistant, is available as a standalone app with a photorealistic AI image generator. The chatbot was previously only available on the X app.

Grok recognizes and analyzes images. “You can also upload images to Grok and it will explain what they mean,” said xAI Founder Elon Musk. “Grok can recognize and explain almost any image, from medical records to WW2 aircraft to memes!”

“We’ve enhanced Grok’s image generation abilities with a new model, an autoregressive mixture-of-experts network trained to predict the next token from interleaved text and image data,” said Musk. “We trained the model on billions of examples from the internet, giving it a deep understanding of the world. As a result, it excels at photorealistic rendering and precisely following text instructions. Beyond text, the model also has native support for multimodal input, allowing it to take inspiration from or directly edit user-provided images.”

Musk also announced that “All Teslas will be able to use Grok” as the chatbot will be integrated into Tesla’s operating systems. Grok will be able to process in-vehicle commands intelligently, letting drivers speak more naturally instead of remembering the syntax that the current voice command system understands.

Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and it’s intended to answer almost anything and, “far harder, even suggest what question to ask,” said Musk.