Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is now freely available to all users and is no longer restricted by a paywall. Unlike many of its competitors, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, Grok required users to purchase an X premium subscription in order to access the chatbot. Grok was first introduced by Musk's xAI in 2023 and was closely integrated with X (formerly Twitter).
Although xAI has not yet released a formal statement verifying that Grok is accessible to all users, numerous users have shared their experiences using Grok without having to buy an X premium subscription.
What is Grok AI ?
In 2023, xAI introduced Grok, a 'humorous AI assistant,' but it was exclusively accessible to premium members. A text-to-image generation feature that xAI added to Grok in August proved to be able to generate some dubious-looking images.
Premium users have more access
Grok is more accessible to users who have X's Premium or Premium+ subscriptions, which cost USD 7 and USD 14 per month, respectively (up to 50 questions per day).
In order to use the chatbot, users who do not have an X account must have one that is at least seven days old and connected to a phone number.
Although Grok is known for being a conversational chatbot, the AI assistant can also assist users with research and topic analysis, offer coding assistance, and be used to automatically respond to consumer inquiries for users' businesses.
xAI's first product
The primary offering of xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, which was established in 2023 and is currently valued at USD 50 billion, places it in competition with other AI firms such as OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and Anthropic. xAI has the advantage of training AI models using data taken from X and Tesla, the latter of which provides visual data gathered by its car cameras.
