Grok - AI Assistant

xAI

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About this app

Grok is an AI-powered assistant, developed by xAI, designed to be maximally truthful, useful, and curious. Get answers to any question, generate striking images, and upload pictures to gain a deeper understanding of your world. With Grok, the universe is in your hands!

Ratings and reviews

Severe usability issues plague this app. Models are ok, but the app is barely usable. Accidentally tip your screen and the orientation flips? Your prompt is gone. Tip your screen during voice mode? Shuts off w/ no notification, prompt erased. Screen goes to sleep during voice mode (isn't kept on by app), and when it does, voice mode shuts off, prompt erased, so you can't actually converse. I think at this point I've lost as many prompts as I've been able to submit. None of this w/ ChatGPT.

Good: Calculating very tedious math, identifying things in images. Terrible: Image generation, shopping (100% dead links or discontinued products and incorrect specs). OK: repair and mechanical. When I ask about things I'm super familiar with it, it makes many, massive mistakes, which makes me weary about the accuracy of information I'm getting on subjects I'm not a familiar with. At this point, in many ways it's wasting my time to the point that the subscription fee seems very high.

My biggest complaint is that the microphone always turns off when you're using talk to text to ask Grok a question. Literally three words into a sentence it just stops recording and I have to hit the microphone button again. Sometimes it will be lazy I assume in an effort to save resources and only utilize three sources. Thus requires follow-up questions and specifically asking it to use more sources. sometimes you need to nudge it. Results are pretty great overall though.