Elon Musk's xAI hiring engineers to build Grok app for Windows and Mac, says ‘Can't live in the browser forever'
Elon Musk-owned artificial intelligence (AI) company
xAI
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Grok app
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Windows
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Mac
laptops. Igor Babuschkin – co-founder and an engineer at xAI reposted a tweet by Sulaiman Khan Ghori - member of technical staff at the company that says: 'Hiring engineers at @xai to help build our Mac product. If you have a track record of writing high-performance Swift and AppKit applications, would love to chat!'. 'Join us to work on the X/Grok macOS app,' Babuschkin wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Elon Musk on hiring engineers at xAI
Tesla CEO and xAI owner Elon Musk reshared Babuschkin's post. 'We're building both macOS and Windows apps. Can't live in the browser forever!,' he wrote on X.
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Earlier this year in February, Musk announced that Grok chatbot will soon be available as a standalone app for both Apple's' macOS and Microsoft's Windows operating systems for PCs. In the post, Musk then wrote: 'Grok will also be offered as a standalone application for the MacOS and Windows.'
Grok gets vision capabilities
In April, the company released new update to its Grok chatbot, enabling it to 'see' the world around it. This new feature allows the chatbot to process and interpret visual inputs, marking a significant leap in AI-human interaction.
The enhanced Grok chatbot uses advanced computer vision technology to analyse images and videos, providing context-aware responses. For instance, users can upload a photo of a product, and Grok can identify it, suggest uses, or even recommend similar items. This capability bridges the gap between text-based AI and real-world applications, making Grok more versatile and intuitive.
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