X’s Grok AI chatbot is now available to all users

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is now available to free users on X. Several users noticed the change on Friday, which gives non-Premium subscribers the ability to send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours.

xAI launched Grok last year as a “humorous AI assistant,” but it was only available to Premium subscribers. In August, xAI added a text-to-image generation feature to Grok, which turned out to be capable of producing some questionable images.

TechCrunch reported last month that Musk’s xAI started testing a free version of Grok in certain regions. Making Grok more widely available might help it compete with the already-free chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Anthropic’s Claude.

xAI, which raised $6 billion in its latest funding round, is also considering launching a standalone app for Grok — something ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude already have, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.