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Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok · Elon Musk Podcast

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  it's banking. But not as you know it.
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  It's better. So Elon Musk's company X,
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  previously Twitter, is extending the availability of the Grok
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  chat bot. It's kind of it's ChatGPT
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  competitor to a broader base of subscribers.
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  Initially this was restricted to the premium plus tier.
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  Musk recently announced on X that Grok will now also be
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  available and accessible to all Premium subscribers, not just
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  Premium Plus anymore. Now this is a shift that aims to
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  bolster the platform's competitiveness against Chap,
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  GPT, and Anthropics Clod. It might also be an attempt to
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  increase the subscriber count on X misreports of declining user
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  engagement. Now recent findings by Censor
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  Tower, as reported by NBC News, show a notable decrease in X's
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  usage within the United States. The platform witnessed an 18%
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  drop in user activity year over year as of February, with a 23%
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  decline following Musk's acquisition of the platform.
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  Now, X's financial health appears to be affected by Musk's
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  adversarial stance towards advertisers as well.
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  And Sensor Towers analysis revealed a significant reduction
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  in advertising spend by top US brands on X since 2022.
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  Now by integrating the AI. Chat by X.
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  Aims to retain its user base, potentially averting migration
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  to other social platforms like Blue Sky, Macedon or even
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  Instagram's threads, the latter having rapidly amassed over 130
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  million monthly users by the end of 2023.
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  Of course, this is powered by meta.
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  Which? Has extensive resources and is
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  also linked to your Instagram account, so they're kind of
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  instant user base through Instagram now.
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  Musk has not specified an exact date for Grok's broader rollout,
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  but he indicated that it would be activated for all Premium
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  subscribers quote later this week.
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  The Premium subscription is priced at $8 per month or $84
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  annually on the web and Grok stands out by tackling topics
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  generally avoided by other chat bots, including controversial
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  political theories and conspiracies in a manner must
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  describes as having a quote rebellious streak.
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  Now a key feature of Grok is its exclusive access to real time
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  data from XA, capability not shared by its competitors.
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  This access enables Grok to provide timely responses based
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  on the latest information available on the platform.
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  Xai, Musk's AI venture, is behind the development of Grok,
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  leveraging a substantial array of GPU's and a mix of web source
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  data and also human assistance feedback to refine the chat bots
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  capabilities. And despite its advancements,
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  Grok, like other AI models, is susceptible to inaccuracy,
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  sometimes disseminating information that's not correct
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  and incorrect timelines, especially when dealing with
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  recent news events. And Grok's unique feature of
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  accessing real time X data, combined with its Internet
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  browsing capabilities, allows it to offer up to date information
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  on various topics, setting it apart from other chat box like
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  ChatGPT, now the forthcoming Grok 1.5.
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  Remember ChatGPT is on version 4.
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  Version five is coming out soon. It promises enhancements though
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  Grok 1.5, including the ability to summarize discussions and
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  suggest content for posts. According to Musk statements on
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  X Spaces conversation recently. Now access to Grok requires an X
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  account of course, and a subscription to X Premium, which
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  is the platform's paid tier and includes ad removal if you get
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  Premium Plus and some other benefits with Premium Plus as
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  well. We just need Premium to get
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  Grok. If you have ChatGPT, this is my
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  I'm going to do a little side note here.
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  If you have ChatGPT and you have maybe another chat bot that you
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  use maybe Google's Bard or or sorry Gemini.
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  Now I don't see a reason for grok to exist in your platform
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  on in your wallet of of chat bots here.
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  ChatGPT does a bunch of stuff, Gemini does a bunch of stuff.
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  The only thing that grok really has is the access to real time
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  data from X, and most of the time you can just search for
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  that with the search bar. Even the search functionality on
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  X is not that good. You can search for the things
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  that you're looking for. Now, if you do something like
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  show me the latest news on X about whatever it is about
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  SpaceX or Tesla or whatever, they may be able to give you
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  some more up to date information.
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  But very soon after that ChatGPT or Gemini will be able to give
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  you the same information. So it's not going to be up to
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  the second on those other platforms, but it'll be
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  relatively fast. Most people don't need things up
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  to the second. Most people just wait a couple
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  hours until everybody catches up.
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  Not a big deal unless you're a reporter or something like that
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  that needs information immediately.
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  So if you're one of those people, though, you know, get
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  the get the grok, get the premium account an X, check it
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  out. I have grok right now.
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  And it's so like, I'm going to be honest with you.
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  It's OK. It's OK.
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  I wouldn't pay money for it if I didn't need the blue check mark,
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  you know, for my account here. So that's a that's a little
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  aside, you know? So make up your decisions, You
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  know, take whatever I said with a grain of salt and it's my own
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  personal opinion, but I want to make this show more beneficial
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  to you by giving a little bit of insight into the things we
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  talked about here as opposed to just reporting the news.
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  Sometimes the show's going to be transforming a little bit.
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  They're still going to be the the news, by the way.
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  And this is another little side for you, but it's still going to
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  be the news every day. But there's going to be more of
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  an open discussion. So the Discord, we're I'm going
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  to make a discord specifically for this channel, for this
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  podcast, and also I'm going to have the link to that soon and I
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  will have more talking points of discussions on there.
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  It's going to be great. I'm setting it all up right now
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  and it's it's going to be really cool.
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  So look out for that in the future.
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  But hey, remember, Grok has a fun mode.
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  It's more informal, it's edgy, and it's different than regular
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  mode. So regular mode gives you
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  grounded responses, but both of them can give you errors.
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  So fun mode is kind of a it's like an edgy teen.
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  Think about it like that. An edgy teen that's like trying
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  to be bad. That's what Grok's fun note is
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  like. It doesn't.
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  It doesn't seem to be fun. It just seems to be kind of
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  snarky, you know? And I've used the Fun Mode a
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  bunch of times. And like I said before, it's OK.
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  It doesn't. It's not ground breaking.
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  It's not going to change the world.
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  But Grok's Fun Mode is, you know, there's some fun things
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  that happen. It's bold.
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  It's unfiltered, though, which is cool.
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  And it's raised concerns due to the propagation of falsehoods as
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  well. And Vice reported on us at
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  length at length, it's. So check out there's a VICE
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  article about this. There's some videos about it.
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  So go search those up. But so they're falsehoods with
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  that and also the regular grok. So just like any other chat bot,
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  there's some things that sneak in.
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  So now Grok's regular mode, though it offers responses that
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  are generally more accurate and less controversial.
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  Pretty, pretty normal stuff, addressing sensitive topics with
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  a more fast fact based approach. So if you want something that's
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  kind of like, eh, fly by the seat of your pants, go for the
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  fun mode. If you want something that's
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  more grounded in reality, go with the regular mode.
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  And Musk was trying to make Grok maximum truth seeking AI.
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  That's what he wants, and he's critiqued other models for
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  perceived political correctness, and he doesn't want Grok to be
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  like that at all, he just wants it to speak its mind.
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  But Grok's responsive has shown a tendency towards progressive
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  and libertarian viewpoints anyway, so I don't think Elon's
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  really doing the best that he can do with this right now.
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  But 1.52 point, O3 point, O, etcetera, We'll probably get it
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  to where it where he wants it to be.
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  But the decision to make this more widely available to X
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  subscribers could be a crucial move in maintaining X's
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  relevance and the. User base and.
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  Money for the platform since there's dwindling engagement and
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  competitive pressures from other social networks like threads
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  etcetera and also other chat bots.
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  So we're going to see what happens.
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  It's a little bit less expensive than ChatGPT or open AI.
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  It's $8 a month if you subscribe on the web.
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  So if you need a chat bot that bad you need real time data that
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  bad from you know Twitter data. It's not real time data from
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  across the web but it's Twitter data or X data.
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  Sorry check out Grok I I'm I'm a proponent of competition in this
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  field. I think all AI chat bots should,
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  you know compete against each other.
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  All these companies should compete against each other and
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  in the end you know who wins. We do because we get the best
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  chat bot to use for whatever purpose that we need it for.
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