Elon Musk owned artificial intelligence startup, xAI, on Saturday said that it is now making the new version of Grok 2 chatbot free for all users. xAI made this announcement on X and wrote about it in a blog that read, “As always, Premium and Premium+ users get higher usage limits and will be the first to access any new capabilities in the future.”
xAI has been quietly testing a new version of the Grok-2 model over the past few weeks, it said.
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What Can Grok 2 Do?
- Search Results and Citations: xAI in the blog post wrote, "Grok leverages the 𝕏 platform to understand what's happening in the world in real time. We recently launched two additional features to enhance this experience even further: web search and citations. Now Grok draws upon posts from 𝕏 and webpages from the broader internet to provide timely and accurate answers to your queries. We also added citations, so you can easily dive deeper into a source to learn more or verify the information provided by Grok."
- Grok, Draw me: xAI wrote, "Grok excels at crafting creative photos and amusing memes. Now it has gotten even better with Aurora, our cutting-edge autoregressive image generation model. Aurora brings a new level of photorealism to your Grok image generations and we are thrilled to see all the images and memes that you are sharing. As part of our integration with the X platform, we also recently released the “draw me” feature, which 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!"
- Grok, Analysis: The blog post read, "Today we’re also introducing the Grok button, a new feature that will appear on posts across your home timeline. This button is designed to help you discover relevant context, understand real-time events, and dive deeper into trending discussions."
Grok AI Becomes Free For All
A few days back, Elon Musk owned xAI made its Grok AI chatbot free for all. This development follows reports from last month suggesting that Elon Musk's platform had been trialing a free version of Grok in specific regions. Originally introduced last year as a witty AI assistant, Grok was initially exclusive to Premium subscribers.
With its wider rollout, the chatbot now enters the competitive landscape alongside top AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude.