Elon Musk's xAI Debuts AI Chatbot Grok, Available to Premium X Subscribers

Elon Musk's debut AI chatbot Grok, with a 'bit of humor' and real-time access to X platform data, is set to rival existing AI tools like ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Microsoft's Bing AI. Available only to premium X subscribers, Musk has ambitions for Grok to not just compete, but become a 'verb' like Google, marking a significant shift in AI interaction.

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has launched an AI chatbot named Grok. The chatbot has been described as 'humorous' and 'rebellious', and is also capable of accessing real-time information from the X platform, Musk's recently acquired social media site, formerly known as Twitter.
Grok will be initially available only to premium X subscribers, though Musk hopes to make the chatbot available more broadly in the future. The AI chatbot offers a significant advantage over rival AI models, as it can tap into X's live data for real-time insights and responses.
xAI says Grok has been trained with data from the X platform and is able to use real-time data to provide relevant and up-to-date responses to user queries. This is unlike other AI bots like ChatGPT or Google Bard, which primarily rely on static data sets.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI will make its clever, sarcastic chatbot Grok available to paying subscribers of X first, but plans to also offer it more widely later.
The Grok chatbot represents Musk's latest push into the AI race, following his co-founding of OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT. However, Musk has been very critical of OpenAI in recent times, making xAI and its new chatbot Grok a direct rival to OpenAI's offerings.