The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, might offer its Grok chatbot for free to all users. Created by Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, Grok AI is essentially a ChatGPT competitor on X. It was only available to premium members who paid for the service until recently. Over the weekend, excited users and astute app analysts started to spot indications that Grok’s availability is expanding significantly, with a free version now available in some areas.
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TechCrunch also confirmed that the Grok chatbot is available to free New Zealand users. The free version has usage restrictions, according to researcher Swak: users can ask the big Grok-2 model up to 10 questions every two hours and the smaller Grok-2 mini model up to 20 questions every two hours. There is a daily limit of three image requests per user.
Users must have accounts that are at least seven days old and connected to a phone number in order to be eligible for free Grok access.
Grok-2 has been able to generate images since its August launch thanks to Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.1 model; more recently, the model has been able to understand pictures. Up till now, only Premium and Premium+ users could access these services.
The decision to make Grok available to free users indicates that xAI wants to grow its user base and get more input to enhance Grok’s functionality and compete with other well-known AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
