Elon Musk Says Grok AI Will Be Available to All Subscribers on X ‘Later This Week’ 61ma Technology News

So far, xAI’s chatbot Grok was only available to the + subscribers of X (formerly known as Twitter). 2s2i6h

Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 27 March 2024 16:25 IST

Elon Musk Says Grok AI Will Be Available to All Subscribers on X ‘Later This Week’

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Grok AI is not being expanded to the subscribers of the Basic tier on X

Highlights

Grok AI is currently available in 48 countries including India
The chatbot is powered by the Grok-1 large language model (LLM)
Elon Musk recently made the chatbot available in open-source

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available in open source. So far, the AI chatbot was only bundled with the most expensive subscription plan +, but now it is being added to the tier as well. The Basic tier will still not be able to access Grok AI.

Musk made the announcement via a Grok to the tier.

In India, the + subscription to X comes at the price of Rs. 1,300 a month or Rs. 13,600 a year. In contrast, the tier costs Rs. 650 a month or Rs. 6,800 a year. The extra benefits in the + tier currently include access to Grok, no ads shown (vs fewer ads in compared to Basic), the largest reply boost in all tiers, and the ability to write and publish articles directly on X.

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With this update, s will also be able to use Grok. The chatbot was developed by Musk's AI firm xAI and was launched in early access to X's + s in the US in December 2023. The. chatbot is currently available in 48 countries. It was built on the AI firm's native large language model (LLM) Grok-1. Like most chatbots, it can respond to questions, generate content, and hold a conversation with the . The company says that the foundation model was not pre-trained on any data taken from X.

Earlier this month, xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, in open-source under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing both research use as well as commercial usage.

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