Elon Musk xAI: Elon Musk’s xAI testing free version of chatbox Grok on X

xAI, based by Elon Musk, is reportedly piloting a free trial of its synthetic intelligence-powered chatbot, Grok. As per a report by US publication TechCrunch, customers on social media platform X have found the free model is accessible in particular areas, together with New Zealand.

At the moment, Grok AI is unique to X Premium and Premium Plus subscribers. Beneath this, customers could make as much as 10 queries each two hours with the Grok-2 AI mannequin, and as much as 20 queries each two hours with the Grok-2 mini mannequin.

Additional, the chatbot introduces a characteristic that permits customers to analyse pictures, with a restriction of three queries per day.

xAI has additionally introduced plans to recruit bilingual tutors in Hindi and English in India, providing an hourly fee between $35 and $65 (round Rs 2,950-5,500) per hour, as per a News18 report.

xAI’s opponents

xAI and its Grok chatbot face fierce competitors from different massive AI fashions comparable to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Copilot.

ChatGPT by Open AI– Open AI’s valuation has jumped to $157 billion from $14 billion in 2021, ET reported on November 9. Final month, the ChatGPT maker closed a $6.6-billion funding spherical, which might worth the corporate at $157 billion, as per a Reuters report.

Claude by Anthropic – Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon, in March this 12 months, revealed a set of synthetic intelligence fashions often called Claude 3. TechCrunch reported in August that Claude crossed $1 million in gross cell app income throughout iOS and Android and was ranked ninety fifth within the Productiveness class by downloads and 68th in that class by income.

Gemini by Google – Google CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed that the corporate is engaged on the third era of the Gemini AI mannequin on the earnings name put up its Q3 2024 outcomes announcement.

Perplexity– Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity AI has begun fundraising talks wherein it’s seeking to greater than double its valuation to $8 billion or extra, the Wall Avenue Journal reported in October. It has informed buyers it’s seeking to elevate round $500 million within the new funding spherical.

Copilot by Microsoft– Microsoft posted revenues of $61.9 billion and internet revenue of $21.9 billion for the FY24 third quarter that ended on March 31. The corporate incurred capital expenditure value $14 billion directed in direction of demand for cloud companies in addition to to scale up its AI infrastructure.

The Wall Avenue Journal reported on October 29 that xAI is in talks with buyers for a funding spherical that might worth it round $40 billion.

Following Donald Trump’s victory within the US elections, Musk has been within the information constantly. Musk additionally highlighted a 15.5% improve in new consumer sign-ups on X, with an estimated 43% surge in sign-ups in the course of the US election vote depend.