As revealed by the documents by xAI, Grok is planning to transform into a multimodal artificial intelligence model, and the company is reportedly working on this future integration.
Its move towards going multimodal comes at the right time as other tech companies have also looked into this or have already released their version, available for many to use.
Since Grok is still young, this move would be a welcome addition to the X social media platform's famed AI model.
Grok Multimodal Upgrade Coming? xAI is Working On It
Elon Musk's xAI released new public developer documents regarding its work on transforming Grok to deliver a better and more capable process by turning it into a multimodal AI model.
The company's sample documents stated that Grok would be able to take in multimodal inputs and complete a user's request in various applications.
This was previously revealed from a preview teased by the company last month behind Grok-1.5V, one that explicitly stated that it would feature a multimodal model for domains.
However, it remains unknown when xAI or the platform would introduce the multimodal Grok to the public, with this being one of the biggest updates the AI assistant would see since its release.
What Will 'Multimodal' Change for Grok?
The multimodal approach for Grok was already sampled in the Python script released by xAI, and this preview shows that the chatbot can process both text and image for its input. Then, it will deliver a text-based output or response to a user.
It is known that xAI is training Grok over real-person posts found on X and publicly available data from the internet as far back as Q3 2023.
Elon Musk's xAI and Grok
It was only late last year when Elon Musk and X had talks about bringing over the social media's very own AI assistant, a generative AI model called Grok.
It was touted to be unlike any other AI assistant present, one that would be chippy and have a flat sense of humor when responding to users, something that took a different path against Gemini, Bard, and ChatGPT.
The first arrival of Grok, until now, saw the generative AI assistant available on X Premium, and the subscribers who availed of the verification and other perks would be able to get this.
However, there are plans from the company to make it available for all types of X account owners, but it is unknown when users can access Grok for free.
Recently, Grok was caught in an incident where it created fake news about the NBA Playoffs, particularly with the Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson, who was accused of public disturbance by the AI.
That being said, xAI wants to improve Grok further to accommodate more media and capabilities, with this multimodal upgrade now in the works and expected to arrive soon.
