Elon Musk’s xAI has added image recognition capabilities to its Grok AI model. With that, paid users on the X social media platform can upload a photo and ask the AI chatbot questions about it.
One of the xAI staff and the official Grok handler posted about this update on X.
In another post, Musk said Grok can even decipher the meaning of a joke using a new image recognition feature. He added that the operation is in the initial phase and will progress accordingly.
In August, Musk’s AI company released Grok-2 as a model and in the form of a chatbot for premium users on X. The chatbot in the social network has also acquired image generation capabilities using the FLUX.1 model by Black Forest Labs.
At the time, xAI said it would release multimodal intelligence as part of Grok’s experience with X and its developer API.
Grok may also understand scripts soon. In response to user feedback about Grok not being able to handle images or PDFs, Musk said, “Not for long. We’re finishing in months what took everyone years.”
The social network has been trying to add more features to the AI chatbot and paid user categories to make the offer more attractive. Earlier this month, X launched a new tool called Radar for Premium+ subscribers to view real-time trends and provide insights into conversations.
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