Grok customers, paying or not, have limitless entry to the brand new Grok 4 mannequin for a restricted time, xAI introduced on Aug. 10 — a transfer to stay aggressive as its fellow AI corporations launch more and more superior fashions and generative AI instruments.
“Merely use Auto mode, and Grok will route advanced queries to Grok 4. Want management? Select ‘Skilled’ anytime to at all times use Grok 4,” xAI wrote in an announcement posted on X.
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As xAI vies for a bigger person base, the corporate could also be attempting 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 going through a backlash, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced the corporate will re-release its earlier mannequin, GPT-4o, permitting different AI corporations to step in with less-controlled alternate options.
Early checks 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 fulfill primary security requirements, permitting customers to create sexual deepfakes.
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Methods to entry Grok 4 free of charge
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 can even choose the “Skilled” setting to get solutions from Grok 4.
The corporate will 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 mum or dad firm, in April filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in coaching and working its AI methods.
