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Elon Musk wants to make an everything app with X and he wasn’t kidding
The Musk-owned platform recently introduced AI images on Grok and already supports video calls with payments expected to be launched as well.
Elon Musk’s X is betting on the promise of everything app and he really means it. The platform has offered video calls for a while, is planning to bring payments for its users, and it even has an AI chatbot built into the product. But soon, X could pit itself against the likes of Zoom and Google Meet with its own version of video conferencing support.
The details about the new feature have been teased by one of X employees named Chris Park, who posted a screenshot of the X video conferencing interface which looks identical to Zoom and Google Meet but has its own flavours and colour codes.
Park also pointed out that the conferencing tool is being tested internally and he did so with other colleagues to show its quality and talked about it being a strong alternative to Zoom, Google Meet and Teams. He mentioned the platform could offer features like pin the speaker to the top and offer a better way to notify people who join or leave the meeting.
Another developer on X claims that the platform will generate a unique code that will be shareable with other users who need to join the call. We still don’t have a clear timeline on when the new Zoom rival will be unleashed by Musk and Co. but it should happen soon.
In the other X news, the Grok 2 AI chatbot is now able to generate images and many people using the platform have ridiculed the images created and how it resembles real-life characters.
Some of the images generated using text prompts on Grok 2 are worrying and Musk should be worried about the bigger consequences of letting such content openly be available on the platform and the internet. Going by the clips visible on the social platform, Grok 2 is a breeding ground for AI deepfakes, explicit images, and a definite case of copyright infringements.
The Musk-owned platform has missed out on the essentials of powering AI tools like image generation, and its policies seem rather odd compared to other AI platforms that support these features. Violence and use of real-life characters are strictly prohibited for AI image generation, something that Microsoft and even OpenAI have received heavy flak for in recent months.
