Musks xAI unveils a new API service for Grok models [Video]

The API service, currently in public beta, is more expensive than OpenAI’s API service and supports integrations with both OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.

Elon Musk-backed generative AI venture, xAI, has unveiled a new API service for its Grok models to allow developers to underpin their applications and agents with xAI’s large language models (LLMs).  

Musk took to Twitter, now X, to announce that the API service was live and shared a link where developers could sign up for the service.

xAI API, currently in the public beta phase, is akin to OpenAI and Anthorpic’s API services that allow developers to call large language models such as GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku.

The comparison with OpenAI and its likes assumes significance as one of the main reasons behind starting the venture last year in July was to compete with OpenAI and somehow match or surpass the competency and reliability of the GPT …