The supposedly free speech-forward chatbot has been limited to paying X users thus far.
It appears that X, formerly Twitter, is making its AI chatbot Grok free to some users. The product has been limited to Premium users thus far, butwas able to access the free version of Grok by visiting X through a New Zealand-registered account. Copy on the site reads, “A free tier of Grok is now available in your region. Chat, generate images, and analyze photos. Limits apply.” New Zealand is a common place for social networks to test new products before rolling them out more widely.
It’s unclear at this point if a free tier of Grok will be made available to users in the United States. Grok is technically developed by xAI, another in Elon Musk’s orbit of companies. Its model, which Musk says is supposed to be the most free speech-forward of all the major models, is trained using content from X, a unique benefit that allows the model access to near real-time information. It’s a benefit at least if you believe in Musk’s ideas of citizen journalism being the “real” source of truth in the world.
Of course, while information moves fast on X, a lot of that information that gets disseminated is false or misleading before it’s corrected by mainstream outlets or X’s own Community Notes, and those corrections oftenxAI is pretty much Musk’s sole hope in getting a return from his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. While Fidelity values X at a, down 79% since the purchase, xAI has already raised $6 billion and is raising billions more in fresh capital at—yes, this is true—.
Musk has been brute-forcing his way into the AI race partly out of vengeance for getting kicked out of OpenAI. Typical of his ventures, xAI has already made noise for quickly building what is apparently the world’s largest AI supercomputer in Memphis,. But hey, Grok can make you an image of Mario flying into the Twin Towers. The other chatbots won’t let you do that.
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