Shortly after screenshots emerged showing xAI’s chatbot Grok appearing on X’s web app, X owner Elon Musk appeared Certain Grok will be available to all of the company’s Premium+ subscribers sometime “next week.” While Musk’s statements About time frames for product delivery It didn’t always hold up – code developments in X’s own implementation revealed that Grok integration was already underway.
This week, App Finder Blessing Auggie Shared screenshots showing how to add Grok to the X web app, noting that its URL will be twitter.com/i/grok. In one screenshot, users who are not yet Premium+ subscribers will be invited to upgrade to access Grok. Another showed an “Ask Grok” text input box to communicate with the AI-powered chatbot. However, the features were not public facing at the time of its discovery, but indicated that the Grok rollout was approaching.
First released on November 4 to select testers, Grok is Musk’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, and others, and will likely gain a following as part of the broader X social platform.
Additionally, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, promises that its chatbot will have more personality than competitors. She plans to answer users’ questions “with a little wit” and is said to have a “rebellious streak.” According to its website. The company noted that the chatbot also plans to answer “sexy” questions that other AI systems reject.
But personality alone won’t be key to your puppy’s differentiation, as you’ll also have access to real-time knowledge via the X platform, which can be an interesting element, if not the component that leads to the highest accuracy in terms of its responses.
The addition could help juice signups for X’s Premium subscription, which hasn’t been as successful as Musk had hoped. The owner of X has revamped Twitter Blue as
As a result, All ads are in the For You and Following feeds, and offers a Creator Center where users can get paid to post and offer their fans subscriptions.
Grok joins this higher-priced category, which may encourage other X users, other than creators, to sign up. This additional revenue is needed now more than ever as X faces a mass exodus of advertisers over concerns about anti-Semitic content on the platform, and Musk’s own behavior regarding amplifying anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
It is worth noting that Grok’s expected debut will come after a week of drama at rival AI company OpenAI, where its CEO, Sam Altman, was ousted, over the course of days, by a board rebellion, and then joined by co-founder Greg Brockman, both of whom were ousted. New appointments announced for Microsoft, before negotiations see Altman return to the CEO role with a new board of directors.
Although Grok’s arrival won’t have the drama of OpenAI’s boardroom, Altman noted Grok’s arrival, even Indulging in the supposed comedic capabilities of the chatbot, By posting a screenshot of GPT instructing it to “be a chat program that answers questions with a sense of annoying humor” and calling it Grok. musk He responded By calling ChatGPT-4 “GPT-Snore,” adding that “humor is explicitly prohibited in OpenAI, just like many other censored topics.”
One of the first founders of OpenAI, Musk He later moved away from the nonprofit He withdrew his planned donation, after Altman and other OpenAI founders rejected an offer that would have allowed Musk to take control of the company. The move led to a public spat between two key AI executives, prompting Musk to launch his own AI company, xAI, with experts from Google DeepMind, Google Research, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, and Tesla.
Musk said Grok has since been trained on a knowledge base similar to ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama 2, but will benefit from real-time access to information on X. It will also be able to search the web for up-to-date information on certain topics.