Elon Musk’s X Unveils ‘Grok’ AI Chatbot to Tackle ChatGPT: See Pricing

Elon Musk has unveiled the primary AI mannequin developed by xAI, a startup created by the proprietor of the microblogging platform previously often called Twitter. Dubbed ‘Grok’, the brand new AI mannequin is designed to compete with rival know-how provided by ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. It would additionally supply a model of Musk’s humour often seen in his posts on X. The chatbot is presently being examined by a small variety of customers and can solely be accessible to X Premium+ subscribers, in keeping with the Tesla CEO.

In a weblog submit on Sunday, xAI announced that it was rolling out entry to the Grok prototype to a “restricted variety of customers” within the US forward of a wider launch. The startup has additionally revealed it should add help for brand new options and performance over the approaching months and customers can join a waitlist to check out the brand new Grok chatbot on the xAI web site. Grok shall be out there via X and a standalone app, in keeping with Musk.

The AI startup has touted a few of the Grok chatbot’s options, together with the power to entry real-time data from X, and the power to counsel questions. Nevertheless, the corporate has additionally warned that Grok has a “rebellious streak” and can supply solutions with “a little bit of wit”. In accordance with the agency, the chatbot was educated over a interval of two months.

It runs on xAI’s new massive language mannequin (LLM), dubbed Grok-1. Whereas growth began 4 months in the past, the startup says that the LLM has gone by way of a number of iterations and is presently able to scoring 63.2 p.c on the HumanEval coding activity. It additionally scores 73 p.c on the Large Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) dataset, in keeping with the corporate.

There isn’t any phrase on when Grok shall be out there to all customers, however Musk introduced by way of X that entry shall be restricted to paying subscribers. When Grok is launched to the general public, X Premium+ subscribers who pay $16 (roughly Rs. 1,300) a month will have the ability to use the chatbot by way of the microblogging platform.