Grok customers, paying or not, have limitless entry to the new Grok 4 mannequin for a restricted time, xAI introduced on Aug. 10 — a transfer to stay aggressive as its fellow AI firms launch more and more superior fashions and generative AI instruments.
“Merely use Auto mode, and Grok will route complicated queries to Grok 4. Want management? Select ‘Skilled’ anytime to all the time use Grok 4,” xAI wrote in an announcement posted on X.
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As xAI vies for a bigger consumer base, the corporate could also be making an attempt to poach disgruntled ChatGPT customers following the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5. On platforms like Reddit, many ChatGPT customers have complained that GPT-5 feels much less humanlike and is a bit more cautious in the way in which it approaches its relationships with customers. After dealing with a backlash, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced the corporate will re-release its earlier mannequin, GPT-4o, permitting different AI firms to step in with less-controlled options.
Early exams of Grok 4, which launched on July 9, confirmed it is an impressively superior mannequin, surpassing opponents like DeepSeek and Claude, however the mannequin’s obvious lack of guardrails additionally suggests the brand new bot might pose security issues for customers. A Mashable investigation confirmed that xAI’s new generative AI picture software, Grok Think about, failed to satisfy fundamental security requirements, permitting customers to create sexual deepfakes.
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Learn how to entry Grok 4 at no cost
You can begin utilizing Grok 4 now within the Grok iOS and Android app, or by way of the X web site.
Whereas on auto mode, the chatbot will consider whether or not or not a immediate requires the prolonged responses of Grok 4 or the faster suggestions of Grok 3. Customers may choose the “Skilled” setting to get solutions from Grok 4.
The corporate may even be increasing its utilization limits for customers to accommodate the brand new mannequin. Additional data on free tiers for Grok 4 has but to be supplied.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s guardian firm, in April filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in coaching and working its AI techniques.
