xAI Grok AI chatbot now available for free X users: Here’s what you need to know

In a rather surprising turn of events, X (formerly Twitter) is making Grok, its AI-powered chatbot, available to all free users. The news comes a month after it was reported that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform was testing a free version of Grok in select regions.

Launched last year as a “humorous AI assistant,” Grok was previously available only to Premium subscribers, but its wider availability will now make it compete against popular AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude.