X (formerly Twitter) plans to offer a free version of its generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) language model in different regions, Grok, an option that is already being tested and that until now was only available to paying subscribers of this ‘microblogging’ platform.
Grok is a ‘chatbot’ developed by the AI division at Xcorp, xAI, that allows real-time responses with humor that is not suitable for all users and that has multimodal search capabilities, supporting text and visual sources ( documents, diagrams, tables, graphs, etc.).
Application researchers like Nima Owji have noticed a series of changes in the social network, such as the update of the Grok logo, a tool that is also now being offered for free in some regions.
“Chat, generate images and analyze photos,” is indicated in a pop-up notification from Grok, which also states that this free paid version of the ‘chatbot’ has certain limitations, so some of its functions may not be available. .
The specialized media TechCrunch, which has also had access to this news, has confirmed that X is testing Grok for free in New Zealand, while another researcher known as Swak has given more details about the requirements applied to this free option.
First of all, user account must be more than 7 days oldas well as a verified phone number linked to it. There are also limits on the number of consultations since you can only do 10 every two hours with the Grok-2 model and 20 every two hours with Grok-2 mini. Likewise, it is possible to use this ‘chatbot’ to analyze up to three images per day.
It is worth remembering that Groka acquired this last ability just a few days ago, when