The AI race continues on as more chatbots become available to the public. Just recently, xAI's chatbot called Grok AI has been released on X, formerly Twitter. Of course, you'll have to pay to access Elon Musk's AI service.
Grok AI on X
In the last few months, xAI has been quiet while several other AI companies have released their own AI tools and services. It was not so long ago that news about the Grok AI chatbot emerged, and now it can used by X Premium Plus subscribers. Sorry, free and Premium users.
Since it's only available to Premium Plus users, that means that you'll have to pay $16 a month to get access to the chatbot. If you're only subscribing now for the chatbot, you won't be getting the special treatment since the priority access will go to those who have been long-time subscribers.
If you follow X owner Elon Musk on his platform, then you've probably seen demonstrations of the xAI chatbot. It shows that it also talks to users conversationally and even has a "rebellious streak" than other chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Bard.
For X on the web, you may find the chatbot on the side menu, while iOS and Android devices could add Grok to the bottom menu of the mobile app. It's trained on the same kind of data that leading chatbots also use.
The AI model it runs on is called Grok-1. Other than training using the data available online, it also learns from the feedback from human assistants, as well as posts from the social networking site, as reported by Tech Crunch.
With access to X, Grok will be able to pull real-time data from published content like news. If you ask Grok about the score of an ongoing game, for instance, it will search through recent posts or headlines to answer.
Since the chatbot will be sourcing its information from the microblogging site as well, it begs the question: How will it separate unreliable data from credible ones? This can be a whole new problem for Grok, especially since X can sometimes be rampant with misinformation.
Some do say that it's more entertaining to use the xAI chatbot since it's not as restrained as its competition. You can even ask it to roast you, and it will do so with comedic flair. It does lack something that other chatbots like Bing AI can already do, which is support image input.
Read Also: Elon Musk Introduces xAI's Chatbot 'Grok'
Google Releases Gemini
The search engine giant may have fumbled the ball with Google Bard, but their new AI model is inspiring confidence among its users. Gemini is more advanced than Google's other AI projects simply because it was trained using text, images, audio, and video.
According to Wired, Google described the AI as "natively multimodal" because of the training data it uses, as well as its ability to work with text, images, and videos. There will be three versions: Nano, Pro, and Ultra, with the latter being the largest.
A smaller version will be integrated into Pixel 8 smartphones, and Google will soon add the AI to all its products and services in the coming months. The most powerful version, Ultra, will not be released until 2024.
Related: Elon Musk Aims to Raise $1 Billion in Investments for xAI
