Musk said early chatbot access will be granted to X paid customers. Grab Grok

 Musk said early chatbot access will be granted to X paid customers. Grab Grok

Musk says that since Grok has real-time access to information via X, it has an edge over other AI models.

Recently, X introduced the $16/month Premium Plus subscription, which offers ad-free access to X.

November 4 marks the launch of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence venture xAI Grok, which will cater to a limited user base. This comes almost a year after ChatGPT, the hugely successful platform, introduced generative AI into the mainstream of everyday life and business.

"xAI will make its first AI available to a limited group tomorrow. It is the greatest that is available right now in a few key ways," the eccentric billionaire said on November 3 on his X platform, previously Twitter.

All X premium+ users will have access to the Grok system after xAI exits the early beta phase, according to Musk.

The US-based online tech news site TechCrunch reports that X's newly released Premium Plus plan, which costs $16 a month, offers ad-free access to the microblogging network.

Musk said that Grok's real-time information availability via X gave it an edge over competing models.

Co-founder of Oracle and close friend of Musk, Larry Ellison, said in September that xAI had secured a contract to train its AI models on Oracle's cloud. But xAI hasn't revealed anything about the internal workings of its AI models or the sorts of jobs that they can do.

In July, Musk announced the establishment of xAI, stating that the company's goal was to create an AI that could understand the fundamental physics of the universe.

Veterans from DeepMind, OpenAI, Tesla, Microsoft Research, Google Research, and the University of Toronto make up the team.

Dan Hendrycks, head of the Center for AI Safety, provided advice to the firm, which also works with X and other businesses led by Musk, such as Tesla.

In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT; however, in 2018, he left the board. The millionaire technologist's relationship with AI has been nuanced. Citing a danger to civilization, Musk and a group of AI and industry experts demanded earlier this year a six-month moratorium on the development of powerful AI systems.

At the end of the first AI Safety Summit in the UK on November 2, Musk demanded the appointment of a "third-party referee" to monitor AI-related businesses and raise the alarm when necessary.