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Grok Imagine generated 1.245 billion videos in the 30 days leading up to its 1.0 release in early February 2026. That release bumped the model to 720p, 10-second clips, and dramatically better native audio. With OpenAI’s Sora 2 winding down by September 24, 2026, Grok Imagine now sits next to Google Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 as the dominant video APIs going forward, and it is the cheapest of the three. What separates a usable Grok Imagine clip from a wasted credit is almost always the prompt. This guide is the working prompt manual for Grok imagine video generation: the formula that produces clean output, 20 ready-to-paste examples across the […]

Grok Imagine Spicy Mode is xAI’s opt-in adult-content tier inside the Grok Imagine image and video generator. Since launching on August 4, 2025, it has been the most permissive feature shipped by any major AI lab. It allows partial nudity, suggestive scenes, and what xAI describes as “bolder cinematic tones,” but it is not a porn generator. Elon Musk publicly clarified the standard on March 12, 2026: “If it’s allowed in an R-rated movie, it’s allowed in Grok Imagine.” That single line is the cleanest way to think about it. Spicy Mode sits above standard image and video generation, below explicit content, and is fenced in by paid subscriptions, age […]

Grok Imagine is the fastest AI video generator most people can actually use right now. It takes a text prompt, a voice command, or a still photo and turns it into a short video with synchronized audio in roughly 17 seconds. That’s faster than Sora 2 or Veo 3.1 by a wide margin. xAI launched it on July 28, 2025 and shipped Grok Imagine 1.0 on February 1, 2026, raising the cap to 10-second clips at 720p with dramatically better sound. This guide covers what Grok Imagine actually is, the five workflows it supports, and how to access it on the web and on your phone. You’ll also see what […]

The standard cost of a major AI assistant in 2026 is $20 per month: ChatGPT Plus at $20, Claude Pro at $20, Google AI Pro at $19.99, and Perplexity Pro at $20. Budget tiers start at Google AI Plus at $7.99 and ChatGPT Go at $8, with Grok SuperGrok Lite at $10 just above. Power-user plans run ChatGPT Pro and Claude Max at $100 and $200, SuperGrok at $30, and SuperGrok Heavy at $300, with Google AI Ultra at $249.99 at the consumer ceiling. DeepSeek has no monthly plan; web chat is free and the rest runs on per-token API pricing. This guide answers one question: how much does AI […]

xAI just rolled Grok 4.3 out to the full API on April 30, 2026, two weeks after a $300/month beta locked behind SuperGrok Heavy. The bigger story is the price reset. Grok 4.3 now runs at $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, an input cut of roughly 40% and an output cut closer to 60% versus Grok 4.20. It scores 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, slotting just above Claude Sonnet 4.6 and well below GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. This Grok 4.3 review covers what actually changed since the April beta, where Grok now stands against the other frontier […]

WWDC 2026 runs June 8 to 12, with the keynote on Monday June 8 at 10am Pacific Time, streamed online globally and capped by an in-person event at Apple Park. Apple confirmed the dates and AI focus on March 23, 2026, and the company’s own teaser graphic has already hinted at a redesigned Siri. This year’s conference is the most consequential AI moment Apple has had since Apple Intelligence debuted in 2024. Bloomberg, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac all report that iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will introduce a new Extensions system for piping Siri queries into third-party AI assistants like Claude and Gemini, with the door open to Grok […]

xAI now sells Grok across six consumer tiers plus a separate developer API, and the price spread between them is huge. The free tier costs $0, X Premium is $8 per month, SuperGrok Lite is $10 per month, SuperGrok is $30 per month, X Premium+ is $40 per month, and SuperGrok Heavy sits at the top at $300 per month. On the API side, the new flagship Grok 4.3 runs $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens at a 1M token context window, with Grok 4.20 still available at $2.00 / $6.00 and Grok 4.1 Fast as low as $0.20 / $0.50 per million. This guide […]

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new Grok 4.3 review. Your iPhone ships with Apple Intelligence built in, but the real power is in the third-party AI apps you add on top. Across 1 million+ ratings, Grok alone holds a 4.9-star App Store average, ChatGPT pulls in hundreds of millions of users every month, and Google Gemini crossed 450 million monthly users in 2026. The gap between the best AI app for iPhone and the rest is now huge, and picking the right one matters more than ever. We spent the last two weeks testing the top AI apps on iPhone in real workflows, writing emails, editing photos, researching […]

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new Grok 4.3 review. A single Perplexity Deep Research query now runs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and delivers a cited report in 2 to 4 minutes. On the heavier end, ChatGPT Deep Research can browse the web for up to 30 minutes and pull from hundreds of pages. In 2026, every major AI tool has shipped its own version of search, deep research, or both, and the gap between “ask a question” and “commission a research assistant” has collapsed into a single click. This guide compares the six AI search and deep research tools most people will actually use in […]

Update — May 2, 2026: Read our new Grok 4.3 review. ChatGPT crossed 900 million weekly active users in early 2026, but most of them are paying $20 a month for a single model when the same cash could buy access to GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.3 (released April 30, 2026) in one app. If you are on Mac, you have more options than the default ChatGPT desktop app gives you, and most of them are cheaper, faster, or both. If you stick with Claude, Anthropic’s Claude Cowork desktop agent is the agentic surface to know about on Mac and Windows. This is an honest […]