Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Is Free for All X Customers Now

X has made its Grok chatbot free to all customers. Grok is developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s AI firm that was spun up as a response to OpenAI.

The information doesn’t come as a shock as some customers seen weeks in the past that X had begun offering free access to the LLM chatbot. 

Musk has proclaimed Grok to be probably the most free speech-forward chatbot after repeatedly attacking different chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT for being too “woke” by limiting dialogue of delicate subjects. Apart from discussing subjects extra freely, Grok additionally features a text-to-image era characteristic that may generate extra express photos, in the event you ask it to. As a result of Musk owns each X and xAI, Grok can entry your complete corpus of X content material to supply real-time entry to considerably correct data. Outcomes from Grok will be embedded into X posts. 

Grok has been restricted to paying X subscribers to date, however that’s a comparatively small variety of individuals, and Musk most likely needs extra individuals to offer Grok a strive as ChatGPT continues to race forward. Growing giant language fashions is extremely costly, and xAI has spent billions scaling up a supercomputer in Memphis, with plans to accommodate at least 1 million GPUs and outpace the likes of OpenAI and Google’s Gemini. X gives by far probably the most income to xAI, however Grok does have a developer API now. 

Musk is at present locked in a heated race with OpenAI most straight, which he co-founded solely to depart a number of years later over disputes in regards to the course of the corporate. He’s at present suing OpenAI over its pivot from a non-profit, open-source firm right into a industrial enterprise with revenue intent in addition to its requirement that traders in OpenAI not spend money on rivals. 

After all, Musk’s X is a for-profit firm and doesn’t enable different firms to make use of content material from the social media community for coaching. He has a degree that he invested $44 million to start out OpenAI with the intention of being a non-profit firm. However OpenAI has released emails that present Musk urged the corporate to boost $1 billion and begin “being much less open” over time, primarily saying if it didn’t change into a for-profit entity, it wouldn’t have the ability to increase sufficient cash from traders to compete with the likes of Google DeepMind. Suing OpenAI to pressure it to stay a non-profit firm could possibly be self-serving and profit Musk’s personal firms, together with Tesla, which is creating its personal AI-based merchandise that aren’t open supply. 

xAI can also be essential to Musk as a result of he has used shares within the firm to repay traders who misplaced their shirts on his acquisition of Twitter. He has granted shares within the new firm, now valued at $50 billion, to these traders, and a few of them have invested additional capital within the new firm. 

Though chatbots are nonetheless plagued with hallucinations and different issues, OpenAI has mentioned that ChatGPT just lately surpassed 300 million weekly active users. Musk will probably must increase entry to Grok past X if he needs to catch up.