X has made its Grok chatbot free for all users. Grok is developed by xAI, Elon Musk's AI company created in response to OpenAI.
The news comes as no surprise since some users noticed weeks ago that started offering free access to the LLM chatbot.
Musk has proclaimed Grok as the most free-speech chatbot after repeatedly attacking other chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT for being too “woke” by limiting discussion of sensitive topics. In addition to discussing topics more freely, Grok also includes a text-to-image feature that will generate more explicit images, if you ask it to. Since Musk owns both X and xAI, Grok can access the entire corpus of X content to provide real-time access to fairly specific information. Grok's results can be integrated into X publications.
So far, Grok has been limited to paying X subscribers, but that's a relatively small number of people, and Musk probably wants more people to try Grok as ChatGPT continues to grow. Developing large language models is incredibly expensive, and xAI has spent billions developing a supercomputer in Memphis, intending to host at least 1 million GPUs and ahead of Google's OpenAI and Gemini. X provides the most revenue for xAI by far, but Grok now has a developer API.
Musk is currently engaged in a heated race with OpenAI, which he co-founded only to leave several years later due to disputes over the direction of the company. He is currently suing OpenAI for its shift from a nonprofit open source company to a for-profit commercial enterprise as well as its requirement that investors in OpenAI not invest in competitors.

Of course, Musk's X is a for-profit company and does not allow other companies to use the social network's content for training purposes. He is right to have invested $44 million to launch OpenAI with the intention of becoming a non-profit company. But OpenAI has published emails This show Musk urged the company to raise $1 billion and start “being less open” over time, essentially saying that if it didn't become a for-profit entity, it wouldn't be able to raise enough money from investors to compete with the company. like Google DeepMind. Suing OpenAI to force it to remain a nonprofit company could be selfish and benefit Musk's own companies, including Tesla, which develops its own AI-based products that are not open source.
xAI is also important to Musk because he used company stock to repay investors who lost their shirts during his acquisition of Twitter. He allocated shares in the new company, now valued at $50 billionto these investors, and some of them invested more capital in the new company.
Although chatbots are still plagued by hallucinations and other issues, OpenAI said ChatGPT recently surpassed 300 million weekly active users. Musk will likely need to expand access to Grok beyond X if he wants to catch up.
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