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Grok AI API Tutorial: Chat, Image, Video, Tool Calling, and Web Search
The xAI Grok API provides access to powerful frontier models, including the Grok 4 series, supporting chat completions (text + vision), image generation, tool calling (function calling and built-in tools like web search), and more advanced features.
Quick Intro
Sign up at https://x.ai/api.
Generate an API key from the console.
Install pip install xai-sdk.
Set env var: export XAI_API_KEY="your_key_here".
Models list: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models.
I'll share some samples in Python.