Grok Chatbot Available to Premium X Users
- Social media platform X is expanding access to the chatbot Grok made by xAI for Premium users in certain regions. Quoted from TechCruch, this expansion was carried out after Elon Musk, owner of the X platform, announced his plans to bring the chatbot to more subscribed X users in March 2024.
X Provides Grok Chatbot
Grok is an AI chatbot based on a Large Language Model (LLM) developed by xAI. This robot conversation technology is designed to compete with other AI chatbots such as ChatGPT from OpenAI, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing.
Currently only Premium and Premium+ users in certain regions can interact with the Grok chatbot. Users can chat with Grok in two different modes: Regular mode and Fun mode. In Regular mode, Grok will provide informative and factual answers to user-posed questions. As for the Fun mode, Grok will be creative in giving his answers.
Benchmark results show that Grok-1.5, the latest version of Grok, has much better performance than Grok-1. Grok-1.5's score jumped to 50.6 percent on the basic math benchmark, with a score more than twice as high as the previous version.
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One of Grok's advantages over other AI chatbots is real-time access to information via the X platform. This allows Grok to provide more accurate and up-to-date answers to user questions.
Although Grok has shown promising results, the chatbot is still in the development stage. Like other LLM products, Grok displays a label indicating the chatbot may provide inaccurate answers. LLM is a machine learning algorithm designed to understand and generate natural language, but is still in the development stage.
Elon Musk announced that Grok-1.5, a chatbot from startup xAI, will be launched for social media X in early April 2024. It is claimed that the answering machine will surpass any artificial intelligence or AI-based chat provider technology that currently exists.
“Grok 2 will outperform existing AI, in all metrics. Currently in training," read a tweet from Elon's X account, quoted by Reuters on March 29, 2024.