A little over a year after xAI announced Grok, X's AI-powered assistant, it's now available in the US as a standalone app.

The AI startup launched its first stand-alone consumer app, as the company tries to catch up with more established players such as OpenAI and Google in the generative AI race.

With the Grok AI chatbot, Elon Musk's X is prepared to compete with Google and OpenAI. In some areas, the platform is now making its AI helper available to iPhone customers as a stand-alone app. Since the software was discovered in beta this week,