In a rather surprising turn of events, X (formerly Twitter) is making Grok, its AI-powered chatbot, available to all users for free. The news comes a month after it was reported that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform was testing a free version of Grok in select regions.
Launched last year as a “humorous AI assistant,” Grok was previously only available to premium members, but its wider availability will now pit it against popular AI chatbots such as Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Anthropic Cloud.
However, unlike most free-to-use AI chatbots, Grok allows users to send up to 10 messages every two hours and can only analyze three images each day. Another change is that instead of the Grok-2 mini, the free version will be powered by the Grok-2 beta large language model.
🚨Breaking: Grok Free Tier is now available worldwide.
It is very limited:
Can analyze 3 photos a day
Can do 10 messages per 2 hours with imagesX has also ditched the Grok 2 mini.
You can now only do queries on grok 2. pic.twitter.com/pHWsaLgewk—‏̤̮ (@blankspeaker) December 6, 2024
Currently, Grok is deeply integrated with X, meaning that apart from being used to view information, users can also ask it to analyze posts and accounts.
While the AI ​​chatbot can analyze images, it currently can’t help you with documents like PDF and Word files. However, Elon Musk has hinted that AI chatbots will get those features soon.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Grok – the company behind xAI – recently managed to raise nearly $6 billion in its latest funding round and is reportedly planning to launch a dedicated Grok app. The company recently opened up its API, allowing developers to build using Grok.