Elon Musk The first AI model developed by has been unveiled xai, a startup created by the owner of the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter. was dubbed ‘grok‘, the new AI model is designed to compete with rival technology introduced by ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Google and Microsoft. It will also feature a version of Musk’s humor regularly seen in his posts on X. According to the Tesla CEO, the chatbot is currently being tested by a small number of users and will only be accessible to X Premium+ customers.
In a blog post on Sunday, xAI announced It was providing access to the Grok prototype to a “limited number of users” in the US ahead of wider release. The startup has also revealed that it will be adding support for new features and functionality in the coming months and users can join the waiting list To try out the new Grok chatbot on the xAI website. grok will be available X and through a standalone appAccording to Musk.
XAI’s Grok system will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers as soon as it moves out of early beta
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 4 November 2023
The AI startup has touted some of the features of the Grok chatbot, including the ability to access real-time information from AI and suggest questions. However, the company also warned that Grok has “rebellious tendencies” and will respond with “little discretion.” According to the firm, the chatbot was trained over a period of two months.
It runs on xAI’s new large language model (LLM), called Grok-1. While development began four months ago, the startup says that LLM has gone through several iterations and is currently able to score 63.2 percent on the HumanEvil coding task. According to the company, it also scores 73 percent on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) dataset.
There’s no word on when Grok will be available to all users, but Musk announced via X that access will be limited to paying customers. When Grok is released to the public, X Premium+ subscribers who pay $16 (roughly Rs. 1,300) per month will be able to use the chatbot through the microblogging platform.