Social network The company stated on its support page that only Premium and Premium+ users can interact with the chatbot in certain regions.
Last year, after Musk’s xAI announced Grok, the chatbot was made available to Premium+ users, that is, people who pay $16 per month or a $168 per year subscription. With the latest update, users paying $8 per month can access the chatbot.
Users can chat with Grok in “regular mode” or “fun mode”. Like any other LLM (Large Language Model) product, Grok displays labels indicating that the chatbot would return inaccurate answers.
We have already seen a few examples of this. Earlier this week, X rolled out a new explore view in Grok, where the chatbot summarizes trending news. Notably, Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA-backed Perplexity AI also summarize news.
However, Grok seems to go further than just summarizing stories by writing headlines. As Mashable wrote, the chatbot wrote a fake headline saying “Iran hits Tel Aviv with heavy missiles.”
Musk probably wants more people to use the Grok chatbot to compete with other products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude. In recent months, he has openly criticized OpenAI’s operations. Musk even sued the company in March for “betrayal” of its nonprofit purpose. In response, OpenAI filed documents seeking the dismissal of all of Musk’s allegations and published email exchanges between the Tesla CEO and the company.
Last month, Grok open sourced xAI but without any details on the training data. As my colleague Devin Coldewey has argued, questions remain about whether this is the final version of the model and whether the company will be more transparent about its approach to model development and data insights. training.
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