{"id":60527,"date":"2023-12-08T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/xs-ai-chatbot-grok-now-rolled-out-to-all-us-premium-subscribers-english-language-users-are-next-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:12:53","slug":"xs-ai-chatbot-grok-now-rolled-out-to-all-us-premium-subscribers-english-language-users-are-next-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/xs-ai-chatbot-grok-now-rolled-out-to-all-us-premium-subscribers-english-language-users-are-next-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"X’s AI chatbot Grok now ‘rolled out to all’ US Premium+ subscribers, English language users are next | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Yesterday, X began rolling out Grok<\/a>, the \u201crebellious\u201d AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk\u2019s xAI startup, to Premium+ subscribers on X\u2019s platform. Today, Musk says that Grok\u2019s rollout to all U.S. Premium+ subscribers is now complete, but cautioned that the beta would face many issues, though it would be steadily improved. He also offered a time frame for Grok reaching other markets beyond the U.S., noting that all English language users (who subscribe to Premium+) would gain access to Grok in \u201cabout a week or so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Japanese users, which is X\u2019s second-largest user base, would then follow with the aim of bringing Grok to \u201chopefully\u201d all languages by \u201cearly 2024,\u201d the X owner said.<\/p>\n

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Grok AI (beta) is now rolled out to all \ud835\udd4f Premium+ subscribers in the US.<\/p>\n

There will be many issues at first, but expect rapid improvement almost every day. Your feedback is much appreciated.<\/p>\n

Will expand to all English language users in about a week or so. Japanese is next\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Of course, Musk\u2019s time frames for when things will happen don\u2019t always come to pass \u2014 just ask any longtime Tesla watcher who spent time waiting<\/a> on full self-driving (FSD).\u00a0<\/a>However, with Grok, Musk has only been a little<\/em> behind in terms of his launch estimates. On November 22, for instance, Musk said that xAI\u2019s Grok would launch to Premium+ subscribers \u201cnext week,<\/a>\u201d but the chatbot actually launched this week, on December 7.<\/p>\n

Whether or not the chatbot is a success in driving subscription revenue for X still remains to be seen. For now, Grok is only part of X\u2019s top-tier subscription offering \u2014 the $16 per month Premium+. That\u2019s much pricier than X\u2019s Basic ($3\/mo) and Premium ($8\/mo) options, and it\u2019s not clear it will appeal to casual AI dabblers who can use rival chatbots like ChatGPT or Google\u2019s Bard for free.<\/p>\n

The Premium+ subscription comes with access to other features to broaden its appeal, including the benefit of seeing no advertisements in the For You and Following timelines on X. Premium+ users also have their replies boosted the most, in addition to all of Premium\u2019s features like ads revenue sharing for creators, ID verification, a verified checkmark, access to Media Studio and more.<\/p>\n

But so far, subscriptions haven\u2019t driven the majority of X, formerly Twitter\u2019s revenue \u2014 advertising has.<\/p>\n

Yet now, it\u2019s unclear what X\u2019s ad-supported future may look like as Musk has been alienating X\u2019s advertisers \u2014 even telling them to \u201cfuck yourself\u201d<\/a> for leaving X over concerns of antisemitic content on the site. For X to be sustainable, it may need a larger number of users to subscribe to Premium+ for Grok to help shore up the loss of ad dollars<\/a> as brands like Apple, Disney, IBM, Paramount, Walmart and others flee the platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of note, X had its largest-ever month for subscription revenue in November, pulling in $6.2 million in net revenue, after app store fees, according to one estimate by app intelligence provider Apptopia<\/a>. However, that\u2019s still less than a third of what Snapchat made for its own in-app subscription, which topped $20 million for the first time last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other words, there\u2019s still plenty of room for X to grow subscribers, given it reportedly has more than 500 million monthly active users<\/a>. Whether or not it can<\/em>, of course, is another story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n