The Grok chatbot, powered by billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI company, is now available to all platform X users for free. This was reported by several users of the social network X, who drew attention to the fact that now, even without a Premium subscription, you can send up to 10 requests to the Grok chatbot every two hours.
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The fact that social network X began testing access to Grok for free users was reported in mid-November. xAI launched Grok last year, but it was initially only available to Premium members. The company then released its first large language model, the Grok-1. Then, in April 2024, the Grok-1.5 neural network was released, followed by Grok-2 in August, which received the function of generating images from text descriptions.
Grok currently trails leading chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini in terms of user numbers, but making it free will allow it to compete with them, as well as other free AI chatbots such as Microsoft’s Copilot and Claude by Anthropic. This will also be facilitated by the upcoming release of an application for Grok, since ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude already have separate applications.
Let us remind you that Grok differs from other chat bots in its more sarcastic, relaxed and even frivolous responses. The developers themselves describe it as follows: “Grok is an artificial intelligence, modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and designed to answer almost everything and, what is much more difficult, even suggest what questions to ask! Grok is designed to answer questions with wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor.”