Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

Billionaire Elon Musk might’ve just been countersued by OpenAI. But that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available via an API. It has been several months since xAI unveiled Grok 3, the company’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini. Grok 3 can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on Musk’s social network, X, which not-so-coincidentally acquired xAI in March. xAI is offering two flavors of Grok 3 in its API: Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with “reasoning” capabilities. Grok 3 is priced at $3 per million tokens (~750,000 words) fed into the model and $15 per million tokens generated by the model. As for Grok 3 Mini, it’s $0.30 per million input tokens and $.50 per million output tokens. Speedier versions of Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini are available at a premium: $5/M input tokens, $25/M output tokens for Grok 3 and $.60/M input tokens, $4/M output tokens for Grok 3 Mini. Grok 3 isn’t exactly cheap r ... Read full article.