In a quite stunning flip of occasions, X (previously Twitter) is making Grok, its AI-powered chatbot, out there to all free customers. The information comes a month after it was reported that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform was testing a free model of Grok in choose areas.
Launched final yr as a “humorous AI assistant,” Grok was beforehand out there solely to Premium subscribers, however its wider availability will now make it compete in opposition to well-liked AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude.
Nevertheless, in contrast to most free-to-use AI chatbots, Grok permits customers to up 10 messages each two hours and might solely analyse three photographs day-after-day. One other change is that as a substitute of the Grok-2 mini, the free model will probably be powered by the Grok-2 beta giant language mannequin.
🚨Breaking: Grok free tier is now out there worldwide .
It is vitally restricted:
Can analyze 3 photographs a day
Can do 10 messages per 2 hours together with photographsX has additionally eliminated Grok 2 mini.
Now you can solely make queries to grok 2. pic.twitter.com/pHWsaLgewk— ̤̮ (@blankspeaker) December 6, 2024
Presently, Grok is deeply built-in with X, that means aside from utilizing it to search for data, customers can even ask it to analyse posts and accounts.
Whereas the AI chatbot can analyse photographs, it presently can not allow you to with paperwork like PDF and Phrase information. Nevertheless, Elon Musk has hinted that the AI chatbot will quickly be getting these options.
In accordance with The Wall Road Journal, the corporate behind Grok – xAI not too long ago managed to lift round $6 billion in its latest funding spherical and reportedly plans to launch a devoted Grok app. The corporate additionally not too long ago opened its API, permitting builders to construct utilizing Grok.
