ChatGPT could finally get some real competition from Grok
Grok goes to mobile devices, according to a Wall Street Journal report. xAI CEO Elon Musk plans to launch a standalone app for his Grok chatbot to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI chatbots like Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
Like the web version of Grok, the mobile app would likely use the Grok-2 model. The latest version of the Grok model series, Grok-2, offers similar conversational capabilities to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, but is enhanced with real-time information from X.
Grok is not universally available, even over the web, and interacting with the AI chatbot requires a subscription to X Premium or Premium+. Going mobile can change that limitation, opening up at least a limited free version of Grok in an app.
xAI certainly has the capital to both create an app and make it more available. The company has seen a huge influx of investment, making it a rare OpenAI rival with a real chance of poaching users. Setting up a standalone app for Grok suggests that xAI has ambitions in that direction. With its own app, xAI can offer Grok to people who may not be interested in X as a social media platform, but are still intrigued by what an AI chatbot could do for them.
Grok and go
ChatGPT is undoubtedly the most formidable rival Grok will face in the mobile app market, but it is certainly not the only one. Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot and many others are quickly launching and upgrading mobile apps with all the features and capabilities that the companies think will entice more people to download the app.
xAI also needs to figure out how much appeal Grok will have separated from its context on And wouldn’t those who see value in X just use Grok in the X app?
The details of the app, such as whether it will include the Flux AI image maker, are not clear, although it would be an obvious feature to add if it isn’t present in the initial rollout. Either way, the relaxed approach to copyright and trademark evident in Grok could also be a problem, as it could provide more opportunities for people to get into trouble for creating images of Mario as Nintendo’s infringement hunter Tracer behind concerns them for infringement, as happened to X.
