Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grok Studio to Challenge ChatGPT With Split-Screen Collaboration

xAI released Grok Studio today, offering users a canvas-style interface for building apps, writing documents, and developing browser games. The new feature pits Elon Musk's AI company directly against OpenAI's ChatGPT Canvas and Anthropic's Claude Artifacts in the competitive AI productivity space.

Grok Studio allows split-screen, real-time collaboration between users and the AI, enabling simultaneous work on various creative projects. The interface supports multiple programming languages including Python, JavaScript, and C++, with the ability to preview HTML snippets.

Beyond simply coding, Grok now features a “preview” tab to let users have a glimpse of what their HTML snippets, coding languages, and bash scripts generate. Everything happens inside of Grok’s native interface.

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OpenAI’s New 'o' Series Is a Giant Leap Toward Multimodal AI Assistants

The race to dominate the AI frontier just got another plot twist—and this time, it talks back, looks at you, and maybe even listens with feeling. OpenAI launched its new “o” series of models today, introducing o3 and its lightweight cousin, 04-mini. These new models aren’t just tuned-up chatbots—they’re omnimodal, meaning they can understand and generate text, image, audio, and video natively. No Frankenstein modules stitched together to fake visual literacy. This is effectively AI with eyes, ea...

“Grok can now generate documents, code, reports, and browser games. Grok Studio will open your content in a separate window, allowing both you and Grok to collaborate on the content together,” xAI said in a tweet announcing the new feature.

We tested the new feature, and it appears well implemented, giving more prominence to the code than the prompt for better understanding of what is going on—unlike Claude, for example, which splits the screen in half.

Next to the code image there is a Preview button to let users see the final product generated after all their interactions.

The release comes two months after xAI launched Grok 3, continuing the company's rapid expansion of AI capabilities since 2024. Grok Studio appears available to both free and paid users.

Another new feature announced by xAI was a Google Drive integration, letting users add documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks directly into prompts. This feature was first featured by Google in Gemini, with OpenAI quickly following suit and Anthropic adopting it later on.

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Grok-3 Review: How Elon Musk’s AI Compares to ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini

Elon Musk’s xAI just dropped Grok-3, and it’s already shaking up the AI world, riding the wave of an arms race sparked by DeepSeek’s explosive debut in January. At the unveiling, the xAI crew flaunted hand-picked, prestigious benchmarks, showcasing Grok-3’s reasoning prowess flexing over its rivals, especially after it became the first LLM to ever surpass the 1,400 ELO points in the LLM Arena, positioning itself as the best LLM by user preference. Bold? Absolutely. But when the guy who helped re...

The new feature is located in the prompt text box, similar to ChatGPT’s UI. The model is capable of understanding visual inputs like photos and charts, and is obviously capable of understanding the text on documents with different formats like .txt, .doc, and .rft, along with native Google Docs.

Grok Studio's support for browser game development aligns with Musk's previously stated intentions for xAI. In February, Musk noted plans to develop an AI game studio, with this new feature pointing that the company may be already pushing towards that direction by enabling collaborative development—or collaborative vibe coding, maybe?

'AI Gaming Will Be Massive': Elon Musk Shares Game Created With Grok, ChatGPT

A novice video game developer created a flight simulator game entirely using artificial intelligence—and Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk took notice, praising the project and sharing it to his 219 million followers amid his recent claims that he plans to launch his own AI game studio. On Saturday, entrepreneur Pieter Levels created a bare-bones flight simulator called Pieter.com Flight Simulator, in a matter of hours, by giving AI code editor Cursor a short prompt and some follow-up questions. H...

The competitive AI productivity landscape continues to evolve rapidly, with each major player now offering features that make their models more compelling. Just this week, Anthropic announced web search and research capabilities, along with Gmail and calendar integration, while Google integrated its Veo2 video generator in Gemini, and OpenAI released o3 and o4-mini—its most powerful reasoning models.

Edited by Andrew Hayward