Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, launched Grok 3, its long-awaited flagship AI mannequin, final week. Grok 3 powers the Grok chatbot apps for cell and the net, in addition to the Grok expertise on the Musk-owned social community X.
On condition that there’s a lot competitors within the AI chatbot house nowadays, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that Grok 3 would make a lot of an affect. OpenAI’s ChatGPT alone has grown to 400 million weekly lively customers. Nevertheless, preliminary knowledge means that the brand new mannequin has certainly gotten folks to obtain and check out Grok.
Based on estimates from Sensor Tower, a market intelligence agency, worldwide and U.S. cell app downloads of Grok in the course of the week of Grok 3’s launch elevated greater than 10x every in comparison with the earlier week. Day by day lively customers for Grok’s U.S. app soared greater than 260% final week, in the meantime, whereas international day by day lively customers climbed 5x week-over-week.
Muddying the waters considerably is the truth that Grok 3’s launch coincided with the Grok app’s enlargement to a number of markets in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. A number of the app’s international progress is probably going attributable to this.
Grok’s net app additionally noticed progress over the identical interval, although, unbiased of the cell apps. Based on digital intelligence platform SimilarWeb, U.S. day by day visits to the Grok net app — to be particular, Grok.com — elevated from round 189,000 to over 900,000 within the days following Grok 3’s launch. Worldwide, day by day visits grew from 627,000 to 4.5 million.
They’re spectacular numbers, to make sure. However the huge query is whether or not xAI can keep the momentum and retain these customers.
Current controversies threaten to dampen enthusiasm for Grok 3. Over the weekend, the mannequin briefly censored sure unflattering mentions of President Donald Trump and Musk, a change that xAI attributed to a rogue worker. A couple of days earlier, customers found that Grok 3 would persistently say that President Trump and Musk deserve the loss of life penalty. xAI rapidly patched that subject, as effectively.
