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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called ‘Grok’.

The billionaire announced the launch in a post on Sunday, stating that the tool would be available only to all X premium plus subscribers.

Grok is the first technology from xAI — Musk’s new AI company.

“The xAI Grok AI assistant will be provided as part of 𝕏 Premium+, so I recommend signing up for that. Just $16/month via web,” Musk posted.

Providing details as to what the new AI feature would help users achieve, Musk said Grok would answer questions “with a bit of humour”.

“Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!” xAI posted.

“Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor! A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform.

“It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems. Grok is still a very early beta product – the best we could do with 2 months of training – so expect it to improve rapidly with each passing week with your help.”

Musk also said his xAI startup will be integrated into the micro-blogging media website, X, and also be an independent app soon.

“Grok has real-time access to info via the 𝕏 platform, which is a massive advantage over other models. It’s also based & loves sarcasm. I have no idea who could have guided it this way,” he added.

Since the Tesla founder took over the micro-blogging platform, several features have been introduced to improve its service.

However, most of these features are only available to users who pay a monthly subscription of $8.

In 2022, the firm introduced the $8 subscription package for the verified blue tick mark.

In April 2023, Musk also introduced a feature that allows media publishers to charge users per article.

This followed the announcement that X users would be able to monetise their content, including long-form text and hours-long videos.