{"id":56035,"date":"2023-11-22T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/elon-musk-says-xais-chatbot-grok-will-launch-to-x-premium-subscribers-next-week-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:16:38","slug":"elon-musk-says-xais-chatbot-grok-will-launch-to-x-premium-subscribers-next-week-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/elon-musk-says-xais-chatbot-grok-will-launch-to-x-premium-subscribers-next-week-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says xAI’s chatbot ‘Grok’ will launch to X Premium+ subscribers next week | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Shortly after screenshots emerged showing xAI\u2019s chatbot Grok appearing on X\u2019s web app<\/a>, X owner Elon Musk confirmed<\/a> that Grok would be available to all of the company\u2019s Premium+ subscribers sometime \u201cnext week.\u201d While Musk\u2019s pronouncements about timeframes for product deliveries<\/a> haven\u2019t always held up \u2014 code developments in X\u2019s own app revealed that Grok integration was already underway.<\/p>\n

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Yeah. <\/p>\n

Grok should be available to all X Premium+ subscribers next week.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

This week, app\u00a0researcher\u00a0Nima Owji<\/a> shared screenshots showing how Grok had been added to X\u2019s web app, noting that its URL would be twitter.com\/i\/grok. In one screenshot, users who were not yet Premium+ subscribers would be invited to upgrade to gain access to Grok. Another showed an \u201cAsk Grok\u201d text entry box for communicating with the AI chatbot. The features were not public-facing at the time of his discovery, however, but suggested that Grok\u2019s rollout was nearing.<\/p>\n

First released<\/a> on November 4 to select testers, Grok is Musk\u2019s answer to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s Bard, Anthropic\u2019s Claude, and others, and could potentially gain a following as part of X\u2019s broader social platform.<\/p>\n

In addition, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, promises that its chatbot will have more of a personality than rivals. It plans to respond to users\u2019 questions \u201cwith a bit of a wit\u201d and is said to have a \u201crebellious streak,\u201d according to its website<\/a>. The chatbot also plans to answer \u201cspicy\u201d questions that are rejected by other AI systems, the company has noted.<\/p>\n

But personality alone won\u2019t be key to Grok\u2019s differentiation \u2014 it will also have access to real-time knowledge via the X platform, which could be an interesting component, if not one that leads to the highest accuracy in terms of its responses.<\/p>\n

The addition could help juice sign-ups for X\u2019s Premium subscription, which has yet to fare as well as<\/a> Musk hoped. The X owner revamped Twitter Blue to become X Premium, promising paid verification among a host of other features, like increased exposure in replies, an edit button, the ability to publish longer posts and videos, and a reduction of ads.<\/p>\n

As a result, X recently announced it would split up its Premium service to include three tiers<\/a>: a $3 per month Basic subscription which doesn\u2019t remove ads, the existing $8 per month X Premium subscription, and a $16 per month Premium+ subscription which removes all the ads in the For You and Following feeds, and introduces a Creator Hub where users can get paid to post and offer their fans subscriptions.<\/p>\n

Grok is joining this higher-priced tier, which could encourage other X users, beyond creators, to sign up. That additional revenue is now more needed than ever as X is facing an advertiser exodus<\/a> over concerns about antisemitic content on the platform, and Musk\u2019s own behavior in terms of amplifying antisemitic conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

Notably, Grok\u2019s expected debut will follow a week of drama at rival AI company OpenAI<\/a> where, over a matter of days, its CEO Sam Altman was ousted by way of a board rebellion, then joined by co-founder Greg Brockman, both of whom were announced as new Microsoft hires<\/a>, before negotiations saw Altman returning as CEO<\/a> with a new board in tow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though Grok\u2019s arrival won\u2019t have the boardroom drama of OpenAI, Altman has taken notice of Grok\u2019s arrival, even dunking on the chatbot\u2019s supposed comedic abilities,<\/a> by posting a screenshot of a GPT that instructs it to \u201cbe a chatbot that answers questions with cringey boomer humor\u201d and calling it Grok. Musk responded<\/a> by calling ChatGPT-4 \u201cGPT-Snore,\u201d adding that \u201chumor is clearly banned at OpenAI, just like the many other subjects it censors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore! <\/p>\n

When it comes to humor, GPT-4 is about as funny as a screendoor on a submarine. <\/p>\n

Humor is clearly banned at OpenAI, just like the many other subjects it censors. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it couldn’t tell a joke if it had a goddamn instruction manual. It’s like\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

An early co-founder of OpenAI, Musk later walked away from the nonprofit<\/a> and pulled his planned donation, after Altman and OpenAI\u2019s other founders rejected an offer that would have allowed Musk to take control of the company. The move resulted in a public rift between two key AI industry execs, leading Musk to later launch his own AI firm, xAI,<\/a> with veterans from Google DeepMind, Google Research, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, and Tesla.<\/p>\n

Grok has since been trained on<\/a> a knowledge base similar to ChatGPT and Meta\u2019s Llama 2, but will leverage real-time access to info on X, Musk has said. It will also be able to search the web for up-to-date information on some topics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n