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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is now available to free users of X. Some users noticed this change on Friday. This will allow non-premium subscribers to send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours.
xAI launched Grok last year as a “humorous AI assistant,” but it was only available to premium subscribers. In August, xAI added text-to-image generation functionality to Grok, which was found to produce some questionable images.
TechCrunch reported last month that Musk’s xAI had begun testing a free version of Grok in certain regions. Making Grok more widely available could help it compete with chatbots that are already free, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Anthropic’s Claude.