Elon Musk owned xAI recently made its Grok AI chatbot free for all. This expansion comes after reports from a month ago indicating that the Elon Musk-owned platform had been testing a free version of Grok in select areas. Initially launched last year as a "humorous AI assistant," Grok was only available to Premium subscribers. Now, with its broader release, the chatbot is set to compete with other leading AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude.
Grok’s free version comes with notable limitations. Users can send up to 10 messages every two hours and are restricted to analysing just three images daily. If you haven't tried it yet and are wondering how to use it, then fret not, we are here to help you out.
How To Use xAI's Grok AI Chatbot
- Go to the X website or open the X mobile app
- In the mobile app, find the Grok icon (a slash placed inside a square) / On the website, it will be available on the left margin.
- Tap on the Grok icon to directly enter the chatbot's interface.
- Type your prompt in the text field at the bottom of the screen.
Grok AI's Aurora
xAI also announced its newest image-generation model, Aurora. Aurora serves as an enhanced version of xAI's earlier image-generation model, which debuted in October. This updated model sets itself apart with fewer restrictions, allowing it to produce images based on nearly any prompt.
xAI while describing Aurora wrote, "We've enhanced Grok's image generation abilities with a new model, code-named Aurora. Aurora is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts network trained to predict the next token from interleaved text and image data. We trained the model on billions of examples from the internet, giving it a deep understanding of the world. As a result, it excels at photorealistic rendering and precisely following text instructions. Beyond text, the model also has native support for multimodal input, allowing it to take inspiration from or directly edit user-provided images."