Victor Oluoma 
Grok Chatbot Rolled Out to Premium Users by Social Network X
X social network, is now offering its premium-tier subscribers access to the Grok Chatbot following Elon Musk’s announcement.
Following Elon Musk’s announcement last month about expanding access to more premium users, social network X is now providing xAI’s Grok chatbot to premium-tier subscribers. According to the company’s help page, the chatbot is only available to Premium and Premium+ members in certain locations.
After Musk’s xAI introduced Grok last year, the chatbot became available to Premium+ subscribers last year for $16/month or $168/year. Users can access the chatbot with the current update for $8 per month.
There is a “Regular mode” and a “Fun mode” for users to converse with Grok. Grok, like any other LLM product, displays labels that suggest the chatbot would provide incorrect responses.
We’ve already seen a few instances of it. They introduced a new explore view inside Grok earlier this week, where the chatbot summarizes trending news stories. Notably, Perplexity AI, which has NVIDIA’s support, and Jeff Bezos both provide summaries of news articles.
Nonetheless, it appears that Grok Chatbot goes beyond only writing headlines to summarize stories. According to Mashable, the chatbot fabricated a story that read: “Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles.”
Musk likely wants more people to use the Grok chatbot, which OpenAI developed and is competing with Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude. His criticism of OpenAI’s actions has been more vocal in recent months. In March, Musk went so far as to sue the firm, claiming that it had “betrayed” its non-profit mission. As a countermeasure, OpenAI made public email chains involving Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the firm and filed documents to have all of Musk’s allegations dismissed.
Last month, xAI open-sourced Grok, but provided no specifics about the training data. There are still unanswered concerns regarding the model’s version and whether the business would be more forthcoming with details regarding the training data and methodology used to develop the model, as my coworker Devin Coldewey pointed out.
