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Grok

Name: Grok
Author: xAI (Elon Musk)

by xAI (Elon Musk)

Real-time access to X. Useful when you need an AI that's actually caught up with today's news.

Free (X account)ChatbotSearch-First

The details

Context Window: 131,000 tokens — comparable to ChatGPT
Cost: Free with an X (Twitter) account · Paid plan for more usage.
Open Source?: No — proprietary (built by xAI)
Input / Output: TextImages in

Best for

Real-time news & trends
X / Twitter users
Less filtered answers

Kevin’s take

“Useful for real-time information from X/Twitter. Has more personality than the others — more willing to be direct. Not my first choice, but worth knowing about.”

— Kevin, formerly of IT Support

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AI assistant by xAI (Elon Musk's company). Integrated with X (formerly Twitter). Text generation and real-time information.

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From the AI Glossary

ChatbotAny AI tool you interact with through a conversation-style interface — you type something, it types back. ChatGPT is a chatbot. So is Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The word has been around much longer than modern AI — early chatbots followed simple rules and were mostly terrible. Today's chatbots are powered by large language models, which makes them vastly more capable.

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What's the Actual Difference Between ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude?The Tinkerer opened all three up. They're more similar than the marketing suggests, and different in ways that actually matter.

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