Grok-2 Chatbot Is Now Available Free to All Users of X Social
December 18, 2024
Elon Musk’s xAI has been rolling out an updated Grok-2 model that is now available free to all users of the X social platform. Prior to last week, the “unfiltered” chatbot — which debuted in November 2023 — was available only by paid subscription. Now Grok is coming to X’s masses, but those on the free tier can only ask the chatbot 10 questions in two hours, while Premium and Premium+ users will “get higher usage limits and will be the first to access any new capabilities.” There is also now a Grok button featured on X that aims to encourage exploration.
The company says the X button “is designed to help users discover ‘relevant context, understand real-time events, and dive deeper into trending discussions,” TechCrunch reports.
Grok’s upgrades include the integration of the Aurora image-generation model, which was released as part of the Grok chatbot experience this month. “Aurora brings a new level of photorealism to your Grok image generations,” according to the xAI blog post, which emphasizes that images and memes created using Aurora are already being shared on X.
As part of the integration with X, the company also released a “draw me” feature that lets users “generate reimagined versions of themselves using information from their X profile.” “If you see another user’s ‘draw me’ post on X and want to try it yourself, just click the ‘Create your version with Grok’ button,” the post instructs.
Aurora will also be added to xAI’s enterprise API in the coming weeks. TechCrunch says that like Grok, Aurora is “largely unfiltered.”
The API has expanded with a new pair of Grok models that the company says are more efficient and also multilingual. “As a result of the efficiency gains, pricing has been reduced from $5 per million input tokens (~750,000 words) or $15 per million output tokens to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens,” TechCrunch explains.
Grok-2 itself was launched by xAI in August, and since then “has benefitted from new features for X users such as web search, citations” as well as Aurora, Pymnts writes, noting that “xAI was recently valued at $50 billion — up from $24 billion during the spring — following a $5 billion funding round.”
The company is pitted against rival OpenAI in a legal battle “as Musk tries to halt the AI standout from switching over to a for-profit entity,” Pymnts writes.
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