Meta and Groq have joined forces to deliver blazing-fast, zero-setup access to Llama 4. Developers can request early access to the official Llama API.

The new service will offer one-click API key creation, interactive model playgrounds, and immediate access to Meta’s latest Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick models, the company said.

Application developers who access OpenAI through its long-running API will now have access to the company's latest full o1 model, rather than the months-old o1-preview.

In the coming weeks, xAI’s image generation model, Aurora, will come to the API as well, xAI said. Aurora, a largely unfiltered image AI, was released on X this month in the Grok chatbot experience.

OpenAI has made its gpt-image-1 image generation model available through its public API, giving software developers direct access to the same system that powers image creation in ChatGPT. The release ...