The social network The company said on its Support page that only Premium and Premium+ users in select regions can interact with the chatbot.
Last yr, after Musk's xAI announced Grok, it made the chatbot available to Premium+ users – individuals who pay $16 per 30 days or a subscription fee of $168 per yr. The latest update allows users paying $8 per 30 days to access the chatbot.
Users can chat with Grok in “normal mode” or “fun mode”. Like another Large Language Model (LLM) product, Grok displays labels indicating that the chatbot would return inaccurate answers.
We have already seen some examples of this. Earlier this week, X introduced a brand new Explore view in Grok, where the chatbot summarizes breaking news. In particular, Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA-backed Perplexity AI also summarize news.
However, Grok seems to go a step further than simply summarizing stories by writing headlines. As Crushable wrote, the chatbot wrote a fake headline that read, “Iran attacks Tel Aviv with heavy missiles.”
Musk likely wants more people to make use of 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 corporate in March for “betrayal” of its charitable mission. In response, OpenAI submitted documents with the request Dismissal of all claims by Musk and published email exchanges between the Tesla CEO and the corporate.
Last month, xAI open-sourced Grok, but without details in regards to the training data. As my colleague Devin Coldewey argued, there are still questions on whether that is the newest version of the model and whether the corporate can be more transparent about its approach to developing the model and data in regards to the training data.
