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xAI Grok AI chatbot now available for free X users: Here’s what you need to know

Elon Musk owned X (previously Twitter) is making Grok available for free users, but there's a big catch.

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Grok AI is now available for all, but free users are severely restricted.Grok AI is now available for all, but free users are severely restricted. (Image Source: xAI)

In a rather surprising turn of events, X (formerly Twitter) is making Grok, its AI-powered chatbot, available to all free users. The news comes a month after it was reported that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform was testing a free version of Grok in select regions.

Launched last year as a “humorous AI assistant,” Grok was previously available only to Premium subscribers, but its wider availability will now make it compete against popular AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude.

However, unlike most free-to-use AI chatbots, Grok allows users to up 10 messages every two hours and can only analyse three images every day. Another change is that instead of the Grok-2 mini, the free version will be powered by the Grok-2 beta large language model.

Currently, Grok is deeply integrated with X, meaning apart from using it to look up information, users can also ask it to analyse posts and accounts.

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While the AI chatbot can analyse images, it currently cannot help you with documents like PDF and Word files. However, Elon Musk has hinted that the AI chatbot will soon be getting those features.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the company behind Grok – xAI recently managed to raise around $6 billion in its newest funding round and reportedly plans to launch a dedicated Grok app. The company also recently opened its API, allowing developers to build using Grok.

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