xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, launches an API | TechCrunch

In August, Elon Musk’s xAI promised to make Grok, the corporate’s flagship generative AI mannequin powering numerous options on X, out there by way of an API. Now, that API has arrived — albeit a bit bare-bones in the meanwhile.

The xAI API solely has a single mannequin, “grok-beta,” priced at $5 per million enter tokens (~750,000 phrases) or $15 per million output tokens. Tokens are subdivided bits of uncooked information, just like the syllables “fan,” “tas,” and “tic” within the phrase “incredible.”

It’s unclear which Grok mannequin “grok-beta” is perhaps; Grok 2 is the very newest on X. The documentation for the API refers to Grok 2 and Grok mini, a light-weight and extra reasonably priced model of Grok — so it might properly be a technical problem.

The xAI API helps operate calling, which connects Grok fashions to exterior instruments akin to databases and search engines like google. And, though they don’t seem like dwell but, the documentation hints at imaginative and prescient fashions able to analyzing each textual content and pictures.

Musk mentioned this summer time that xAI is coaching the subsequent era of Grok fashions at its Memphis datacenter, which has been accused by Memphis officers of worsening smog with unauthorized fuel generators. The corporate hopes to improve the datacenter subsequent 12 months, however will want approval from the Tennessee Valley Authority so as to take action.

In Might, xAI raised $6 billion in a funding spherical led by buyers together with Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Constancy.