Since launching Grok-2 in August, we have been hard at work improving Grok on 𝕏, adding new features like web search, citations, and our recent image generator, Aurora.

Over the past few weeks we have been quietly testing a new version of the Grok-2 model, which is three times faster and offers improved accuracy, instruction-following, and multi-lingual capabilities.

Today we are excited to announce that we are beginning to roll out this new version of Grok-2 to all users on 𝕏 for free. As always, Premium and Premium+ users get higher usage limits and will be the first to access any new capabilities in the future.

Search results and citations

Grok leverages the 𝕏 platform to understand what's happening in the world in real time. We recently launched two additional features to enhance this experience even further: web search and citations. Now Grok draws upon posts from 𝕏 and webpages from the broader internet to provide timely and accurate answers to your queries. We also added citations, so you can easily dive deeper into a source to learn more or verify the information provided by Grok.

Grok, draw me!

Grok excels at crafting creative photos and amusing memes. Now it has gotten even better with Aurora, our cutting-edge autoregressive image generation model. Aurora brings a new level of photorealism to your Grok image generations and we are thrilled to see all the images and memes that you are sharing.

As part of our integration with the X platform, we also recently released the “draw me” feature, which lets users generate reimagined versions of themselves using information from their 𝕏 profile. If you see another user’s “draw me” post on 𝕏 and want to try it yourself, just click the “Create your version with Grok” button!

Grok, analysis!

Today we’re also introducing the Grok button, a new feature that will appear on posts across your home timeline. This button is designed to help you discover relevant context, understand real-time events, and dive deeper into trending discussions.

API access

One month ago we released the public beta of our enterprise API along with preview models grok-beta and grok-vision-beta. Today we are adding two new models coming to our API: grok-2-1212 and grok-2-vision-1212. These models bring improvements in accuracy, instruction-following, and multi-lingual capabilities and offer a great option for developers looking for a highly-steerable and intelligent model.

As a result of our efficiency improvements, we are also lowering the price of these models to $2 / 1M input tokens and $10 / 1M output tokens.

You can currently sign up and use the API with $25 free credits. Please sign up here or find out more.

In the coming weeks, Aurora is also coming to our API, enabling developers to generate photorealistic images for their applications.

Stay tuned as we continue to improve Grok and broaden its reach in the coming months. If you are interested in helping us create tools that let the world create and understand, apply for positions here.