Social network X is offering access to its xAI Grok chatbot to Premium subscribers after Elon Musk announced the expansion to more paid users last month. The company said about it support page that only Premium and Premium+ users can interact with the chatbot in selected areas.
Last year, after Musk’s xAI announced Grok, it made the chatbot available to Premium+ users — people who pay $16 a month or $168 a year. With the latest update, users who pay $8 per month can access the chatbot.
Users can chat with Grok in “Regular Mode” or “Fun Mode”. Just like any other Large Language Model (LLM) product, Grok displays labels indicating that the chatbot would return inaccurate answers.
We have already seen some examples of this. Earlier this week, X introduced a new explore view in Grok, where the chatbot summarizes news trends. Notably, Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA-backed Perplexity AI also round up news.
However, Grok seems to go a step further than just summarizing stories by writing headlines. As Mashable wrote, the chatbot wrote a fake headline saying “Iran hits Tel Aviv with heavy missiles.”
Musk likely wants more people to use the Grok chatbot to compete with other products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude. In recent months, he has been openly critical of OpenAI’s operations. Musk even sued the company in March for “betraying” its non-profit goal. In response, OpenAI filed documents seeking it rejecting all of Musk’s claims and released email exchanges between Tesla’s CEO and the company.
Last month, xAI Grok open-sourced, but without training data details. As my colleague Devin Coldewey argued, questions remain about whether this is the latest version of the model and whether the company will be more transparent about its approach to model development and information about the training data.
