Grok, an AI chatbot built into X, is being offered free to some users as part of an experiment by the social media platform. Previously, an $8/month X Premium subscription was required. This follows the recently announced Grok 2.

Built by xAI, owned by Elon Musk, Grok has quickly become one of the leading artificial intelligence tools on the market, offering image analysis, image generation, and real-time data access. It is particularly useful for tracking news and trending topics.

According to app researcher Nima Owji, Grok is getting a new logo in addition to offering free access. Free users will be subject to the same restrictions that OpenAI applied to free users of ChatGPT.

This will be a phased rollout to certain countries first, but it is not clear which ones; if you don't want to pay for Grok or wait for the free version, see our guide to the best AI chatbots.

Grok is available primarily within the X It is deeply integrated into the platform and can also provide analytics on specific accounts and posts. To access it, sign in to your X account and click on the Grok logo.

Recently, xAI released an API to allow developers to build using the Grok AI model, making access more widely available. platforms such as Poe and Perplexity now offer Grok as an option when starting a “chat” Grok is now available as an option when starting a “chat.

Using third-party tools is one way to get free access if you don't want to create an account on X.

The use of Grok is also a good option for those who don't want to create an account on X.

A post by Swak to the X Grok community points out details of restrictions regarding free access to X. For example, the account must be at least a week old with 10 questions every two hours, analysis of three images per day, and a phone number attached.

Despite starting a bit late, Grok is catching up very quickly to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude in terms of features and performance. xAI has 100,000 Nvidia GPUs to train the next generation Grok model. mega clusters to train the next generation of Grok models, so performance is likely to improve.

Grok is already capable of image analysis, can code, responds to most queries without problems, and has live internet access as well as information on X posts and trends, making it ideal for news and information analysis. Here are three things to try.

Grok tends to be more opinionated than other AI models, so this idea is not for the faint of heart, but it does allow you to evaluate your desk setup.

Grok gave me a “7 out of 10” but needed a better backdrop and suggested I improve the lighting in the office.

Grok said: “Overall, your setup is practical and suited for productivity, but there is room for aesthetic and ergonomic improvements.

Just give them an image of a space in your home, garage, or elsewhere and ask them to “evaluate my setup.”

In addition to live Internet access, Grok can also see everything that is being shared on X and pull from it the most popular topics of the day. One “suggested” use case for Grok when first opening the chatbot is to show the latest headlines.

You could also ask Grok to elaborate further on any one of the headlines and show you X number of posts from different perspectives on that particular topic.

If you don't want to show “all” headlines, you can also ask Grok to show the latest news on a particular topic, such as ChatGPT or LLM.

Grok has a built-in Flux AI image generation model that can create a variety of images, from realistic to anime or cartoon style.

It is unclear how many images are available to free users of Grok, but if it is anything like ChatGPT, there is a set number of images available per month. There are other platforms to try the Flux model, and I recently shared 7 fun prompts to try with Flux.

The advantage of using a chatbot like Grok to create images is that it can also refine the prompt for you and adapt it based on your responses. I asked, “Please create an image of an astronaut on Mars walking through a sandstorm.”