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Grok APIJun 1, 2026

Public URLs and Files API ↔ Imagine integration

Public URLs for Files — turn any file in your Files API storage into a permanent, unauthenticated URL that anyone can open, embed, or share. Revocable at any time, or set an auto-expiry between 1 hour and 30 days. Reference stored files as Imagine inputs — substitute image_file_id, video_file_id, or reference_image_file_ids for URL inputs across every Imagine endpoint, with no need to re-upload bytes or make the file public.

What's new in Grok

grok-imagine-image-quality retirement on November 2

Grok Bot

Imagine image API updates

Adjustable VAD threshold for Speech to Text

Priority Processing

Public URLs and Files API ↔ Imagine integration

Context Compaction

Custom Voices

Grok Build

Image Search in Web Search

Smart Turn for Streaming STT

WebSocket Responses API Mode

Cost Tracking

Files API TTL

Speech to Text is available

Batch API JSONL file upload

Batch API supports Image and Video generation

Text-to-Speech is available

Batch API is released

Video Generation & Next-Gen Image Generation

Grok Speech to Speech API is released

Files API is generally available

New Tools Available

Tools are now generally available

Responses API is generally available

Collections API is released

Management API is released

Cached prompt is now available

Live Search is available on API

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