Social network However, the platform appears to be preparing to open up chatbots to free users.
Over the weekend, several app researchers and users posted about a free version of Grok being made available to people in certain regions.
TechCrunch has been able to confirm that X is testing access to Grok, at least for free users in New Zealand.
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According to researchers working with Swak on . per day.
To use Grok for free, your account must be created for at least 7 days and have a linked phone number.
xAI launched Grok-2 in August with image generation capabilities supporting Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 model. Late last month, the company also gave the model the ability to understand images.
All these features were previously only available to Premium and Premium+ users. By opening up Grok to free users, xAI is probably seeking a more significant user base and faster feedback cycles for its product so that it can better compete with other models on the market such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. It is thought that.
Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that xAI was in talks to raise billions of dollars at a $40 billion valuation.