Later on this week, X‘s Premium users will have access to xAI’s Grok chatbot, which is the Elon Musk-led company’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Musk tweeted about Grok’s wider availability and included a tutorial video showing users how to post a dialogue with the chatbot straight on the X website. Since Grok’s early beta launch, X’s Premium+ members have had access to it; nonetheless, the social network’s subscription tier costs $16 per month, or $168 when billed annually. With a monthly fee of $8 or an annual cost of $84 for the Premium tier, Grok is now somewhat more affordable thanks to this rollout.
Musk‘s xAI open sourced its Grok-1 model, which powers its chatbot, in mid-March. Just a couple of weeks before that, the executive sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of chasing profits and abandoning their non-profit mission. Musk was one of OpenAI’s earliest supporters and funded its operations when it was just starting out. In his lawsuit, he claimed that OpenAI was developing generative artificial intelligence “to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity.” That, he said, was a “stark betrayal of the Founding Agreement.”
But in a rebuttal of his claims, OpenAI said that there “is no Founding Agreement, or any agreement at all with Musk” to open source its technology. The company said that Musk did not only know that it was going to transition into a for-profit entity, he was also involved in its planning and originally wanted majority equity, control of the initial board of directors and the CEO position.
