Musk opens up X’s “rebellious” AI chatbot Grok to more subscribers

Musk opens up X’s “rebellious” AI chatbot Grok to more subscribers،

After Elon Musk's xAI decided to make its large Grok language model open source earlier in March, the X owner has now announced that the former Twitter will soon make the Grok chatbot available to more people of paying subscribers.

Where else but on X, Musk revealed that starting this week, Grok will be available to Premium subscribers. The chatbot will not be limited only to users at the top tier, Premium+, as was previously the case.

This change could mean that X wants to take on other popular chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. Yet it could also show that X is looking to increase its subscriber count. Additionally, giving users access to an AI chatbot could prevent them from moving to other platforms.

Grok could attract interest from Musk followers and avid X users because it's designed to tackle topics that other AI chatbots typically avoid, like more controversial political notions, for example.

Additionally, it is programmed to respond with what Musk called it a “rebellious trend.” What sets Grok even further apart is its ability to leverage real-time X-ray data, a feature its competitors can't match.

X Premium sits in the middle of the company's subscription offerings, starting at $8 per month (on the web) or $84 per year. Previously, Grok was exclusively available to Premium+ subscribers, priced at $16 per month, or $168 per year. Initially offering a single premium subscription, X now offers three paid tiers: