Elon Musk’s xAI may soon launch a ChatGPT-like standalone app
Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly planning to launch a standalone app next month. xAI may have arrived late to the field of artificial intelligence (AI), but rapid steps have been taken to close the gap. In the past two months, the AI company has released function calling functionality within its large language models (LLMs), launched an application programming interface (API) for developers, and reportedly tested a free version of the AI model. And now a report claims that the company plans to tackle OpenAI with a ChatGPT-like app.
Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly getting a standalone app
The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk aims to build Grok AI as an independent product. Quoting people familiar with the matter, the publication claimed that xAI could soon launch a standalone chatbot app for Grok, similar to ChatGPT.
Currently, Grok AI can only be accessed via X (formerly known as Twitter) and is available to X Premium and Premium+ subscribers. Recently, a report claimed that xAI plans to release a free version of the AI model. The standalone app can be part of the same plan.
The plans for a new app along with an API for developers point to Musk’s ambitions to create new avenues for monetization through his AI offerings. To lure developers, the company has even announced incentives in the form of free tokens. The plan seems to be to bring Grok to as many people as possible and let other software and apps take advantage of its capabilities.
The WSJ report also claimed that Musk’s larger goal is to rival OpenAI and offer its products and services as a viable alternative in whatever space ChatGPT occupies. However, Grok lacks several features such as native image generation, voice support, and agentic AI capabilities, something major rivals like Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and others already offer.
Musk’s rivalry with OpenAI is not new. Notably, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI earlier this year for violating its contract to remain a nonprofit. The ChatGPT creator responded to the accusations by calling it “baseless and exaggerated.”
The report also highlighted that xAI has two key advantages over other AI chatbots. First, Grok is trained exclusively on the public messages on Second, Musk uses Tesla to train the xAI models.
However, whether these benefits translate into user adoption and monetization can only be measured in the future.
