Grok 3, ‘The smartest in the world’, becomes free: so you can use it

Elon Musk announced in the early hours of this Tuesday the new version of Grokthe AI ​​developed by XAIcompany created by the tycoon in 2023 After the brilliant success obtained by OpenAI with Chatgpt. Grok 3 groups a family of language models that, according to Musk, make it ‘The most intelligent AI in the world’but one that was not going to be available to everyone, but For premium+ subscribers in Xthe platform previously known as Twitter. But that exclusivity has lasted little: XAI announced this Thursday that Grok 3 becomes available for all X users by, apparently, a limited time.

How much? It is not known. According to the company’s tweet, ‘Until the servers melt’that is not to say much. Grok 2 is no longer available in X, where it appears Grok 3 Beta as the only assistant of AI that can be usedbut in the web version, in which You can choose between both language models.

The truth is that putting available to all users of X Grok 3 and then returns them to Grok 2 It doesn’t seem most likely. Yes, as new functionalities are gaining, such as the voice interaction that will arrive this week, these are available for those who pay € 22.08 per month of X Premium+ and what Free accounts users conform to a more limited version.

It is the same business model that Openai are following with chatgpt, Google with Gemini and Microsoft with COPILOTamong others. In the retransmission of the announcement of Grok 3, the launch of a future subscription was also advanced Supergrok With more possibilities. The company has affirmed that the subscribers of X Premium+ and Supergrok can make a greater use of Grok 3 and will receive the news before.

In any case, the launch of Grok 3 has made its dedicated app, which allows you to use it without entering X or the web version, launched earlier this month, The first download position in numerous markets has been perched. Among them, the United States, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom. In Spain, the Grok app is not yet available.

How to use Grok 3 for free

Grok 3 is a Multimodal that uses large language models (LLM), Grok 3 and Grok 3 Minibeing the latter a more agile version but not so capable of the first, in the style of Chatgpt’s mini models.

Grok 3 is what is now called A reasoning modelwhich shows its ‘thoughts’ chain while preparing the user’s prompt response. It has a deep search function, Deep Searchaccessing real -time Internet information, and another call Thinksuitable for mathematics, science and programming.

As explained by Musk in the presentation, Grok 3 exceeds GPT-4O, which is not the most advanced LLM of OpenAI, in several reference testsincluded Aime (mathematics questions) and GPQA (Physics, biology and chemistry questions at the doctoral level). Also obtained a competitive score in Chatbot Arenawhile Grok 3’s reasoning model also beat others in the exam Aime 2024 and even a smaller version of the new exam Aime 2025.

To use Grok from Spain, you can do it Through X or your website. In the first case, selecting the section Grok In the lateral menu. If you do not have an X account, you can access it on its website with your Google account or create a new one from an email, in addition to using X.