Elon's Grok AI Chatbot Available To X Premium Plus Subscribers In India

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI has rolled out its chatbot Grok to India and 46 other countries, including Australia, Canada, Malaysia and New Zealand, Reuters reported on Thursday.

This service will be available for social media platform X’s Premium+ subscribers in the US this month. Grok is competing with OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT and the recently launched Google's Gemini AI.

As more and more advertisers leave the microblogging platform, Musk has stressed upon reducing the company's reliance on advertising and has shifted focus to paid subscriptions.

Musk took over twitter and turned it into X a year ago. Recently, he also launched the Premium+ plan for USD 16 per month, which includes benefits like no ads and access to xAI services.

Musk had earlier said that he intends to turn X into a "super app", offering a range of services to its subscribers from messaging and social networking to online payments.

xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, was launched in the month July this year.

xAI earlier this month filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to USD 1 billion in an equity offering, according to a regulatory filing. It has so far raised USD 134.7 million.