Elon Musk isn’t one to sit out a tech trend. In November 2023, he launched Grok, an AI chatbot created by his artificial intelligence startup, xAI. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI before departing in 2018, created Grok to compete with ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s Gemini. But he gave it a sarcastic twist and direct access to X (formerly Twitter), the social platform he purchased in October 2022.
Initially, Grok was available exclusively to paying X subscribers. It has since expanded far beyond X and is now available through grok.com, standalone iOS and Android apps and in qualifying Tesla vehicles.
What started as an irreverent chatbot…
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