All X users can access Grok AI chatbot and its new image generator now – for free [Video]

Since acquiring X, Elon Musk has been juicing up the platform with artificial intelligence (AI) using its Grok assistant offering. Over the past week, the platform gained a new AI image generator and expanded access to its AI chatbot.

The Grok AI chatbot on X has been limited to Premium users. However, as first spotted by The Verge, starting on Friday, free users began noticing that they had also been given access to the Grok 2 chatbot, with the ability to send up to 10 Grok messages every two hours. 

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At the time of writing this article, from my free X account, I could access the chatbot, which has a similar UI to ChatGPT. When I asked, “What is the biggest news of the day?”, I was met with a reliable answer that made sense and was linked to …