
What is Grok AI, and How is it different from ChatGPT?
With the introduction of several next-gen products, businesses need to use the best AI tools. Grok AI is a distinct Gen AI product with a bold and captivating personality.
Launched in 2023, Grok AI is an artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot capable of generating, analyzing, and changing text. Grok AI Twitter (currently known as X) was developed by Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI.
This blog explores these gen AI products in detail.
What is Grok AI?
Grok AI is a large language model that users can leverage for varied tasks like generating, modifying, and analyzing texts. It is an AI chatbot capable of performing the following tasks:
- Real-time search: It can access real-time information from X (formerly Twitter). It can provide top headlines, product and service information, and more.
- Image creation: Users can input prompts to generate images from text instructions.
- Report analysis: You can use it to analyze reports and documents.
- Code analysis: It can help developers to analyze code.
- Unfiltered answers: You can seek unfiltered answers to questions from Grok AI
Overall, Grok XAI is a fairly useful chatbot for day-to-day applications. The release of this super chatbot largely resonates with Elon Musk’s idea of building an “everything app.” The chatbot works as an integral element of platform X while extending its functional features to a large extent. This will likely defend Musk from losing users who need to use AI while logged in onto X.
Is Grok AI free?
Yes, Grok AI is free for all X users. However, you do not have complete access to it. This means there are limitations to the number of questions you can ask the chatbot for a certain time period.
Here’s a look at the Grok pricing:
- Free: Simple access to Grok is available for all X users.
- Premium Users: They need to pay $8/month to use Grok
- Premium+ Users: They have to pay $22/month for using Grok
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What are the key features of Grok AI?
Grok comes with three main features revolving around web search, image generation, and API (application programming interface. The Grok AI chatbot development team said, “Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and a rebellious streak.”
Further, they also posted in November 2023, “A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.”
The above words and posts of the AI development team showcase how Grok is different from other predominant chatbots in the market.
Web search and citations
The Grok AI chatbot is integrated on the X platform and is capable of generating accurate answers on live-events. This means, you do not miss ongoing events. Additionally, the chatbot also presents you with the links right next to the chat window.
Creating Images
Grok makes use of Aurora for presenting users with compatible images as per their need. It can easily generate photorealistic images based on your text prompts; essentially, where Aurora acts as the engine behind Grok’s image creation capabilities.
API
Users have access to an inbuilt API with Grok. This means, you can access function calls, a 128k context length, and system prompt support. Furthermore, the API is interoperable with OpenAI and Anthropic software development kits.
What is the difference between Grok AI and ChatGPT?
First, Grok is an integrated chatbot on platform X, and ChatGPT is a standalone product. However, for people using iOS devices, Grok is also available as a standalone mobile app. Given its fast-paced market growth, we can expect Grok AI to soon be available to all users as a standalone app as well.
People logged on X do not have to login to some other website or app for using Grok. This chatbot is capable of assisting people with problems based on text and image analysis. Users also recommend Grok for helping with math and coding issues.
Regarding the performance of the two AI platforms, Grok 2 scored 87.5% on the MMLU benchmark, while ChatGPT scores hovered around 67% on the MMLU benchmark. This works in favor of using elon musk’s grok AI over ChatGPT. However, the right tool will depend upon the industry and user needs.
Wrapping Up
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