The decision to make Grok more widely available is seen as a strategy to compete with other free chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Anthropic’s Claude. xAI, which recently raised $6 billion in funding, is also reportedly considering launching a standalone app for Grok, a feature that some of its competitors already offer.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, previously only available to Premium subscribers, is now available to free users on X, allowing them to send up to 10 messages every two hours.
- Grok, launched by xAI as a 'humorous AI assistant', recently added a text-to-image generation feature.
- xAI, which raised $6 billion in its latest funding round, is considering launching a standalone app for Grok to compete with other free chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Anthropic’s Claude.
- xAI had started testing a free version of Grok in certain regions, as reported by TechCrunch.