Elon Musk’s xAI company has announced the launch of Grok Vision, which lets AI answer questions about what comes into view of a smartphone camera, similar to the real-time vision features available in Google Gemini and ChatGPT.
Elon Musk’s xAI company has announced the launch of Grok Vision, which lets AI answer questions about what comes into view of a smartphone camera, similar to the real-time vision features available in Google Gemini and ChatGPT.
As TechCrunch notes, the feature allows users to point their phone at objects like products, signs, and documents and ask questions about them. Grok Vision is available on the Grok app for iOS, but there’s no Grok app for Android yet.
Other new features coming to Grok include multilingual audio and real-time voice search in Grok. Grok users on Android can take advantage of these features, but only if they subscribe to xAI’s SuperGrok plan, which costs $30 per month.
GROK CAN SEE WHAT YOU SEE—LITERALLY
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 20, 2025
Grok’s voice mode comes with camera access, letting users point their phone at something and ask, «What am I looking at?»
The Vision feature on iOS allows the chatbot to analyze real-world objects, text, and environments through your… https://t.co/cmtINP8yp6 pic.twitter.com/N1b6pcYZOi
xAI is constantly adding new features to its chatbot. Grok recently received a memory feature, which is also similar to ChatGPT and Gemini, and allows users to save old conversations for future reference.
Musk’s AI chatbot recently received a major update, Grok Studio, available to all subscription types, allowing it to create documents, code, reports, and browser games.
