Recently, Elon Musk's xAI company announced that its AI chatbot Grok is now available to non-paying users. Users without a Premium subscription can send up to ten messages to Grok every two hours.

Originally launched by xAI last year as a "humorous AI assistant," Grok was previously exclusive to Premium subscribers. In August of this year, xAI enhanced Grok with text-to-image generation capabilities, which at one point produced some controversial images.

According to a report by TechCrunch last month, xAI has begun testing a free version of Grok in certain regions. This initiative aims to enable Grok to compete with existing free chatbots in the market, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Microsoft's Copilot, and Anthropic's Claude.

The Wall Street Journal reported that xAI raised $6 billion in its latest funding round and is considering launching a standalone application for Grok, while ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude already have their own dedicated applications.