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Grok

xAI

xAI's consumer chat product, a standalone app at grok.com with mobile clients and integration into X, competing on real-time access to X content and a less-filtered conversational style. It offers a reasoning mode, real-time search and multimodal input.

Scored as the chat product rather than the Grok model SKU, which is a separate entry under base_pretrained. Verified 2026-08-13 via the xAI Grok 4.1 release notes.

Openness

1 high confidence
1.0
license
proprietary(SaaS/embedded in X)
source
closed
self-host
none
model
xAI Grok(closed weights)

A proprietary chat interface over a closed-weight model: the closed counterpart to the open chat interfaces in this category.

Adoption

5 low confidence
5.0

App reported ~60-64M MAU and ~8-10M DAU early 2026, plus default availability to X Premium subscribers within X's ~350-400M MAU base. Clears >10M as a surface. Figures are aggregator-compiled (xAI does not publish a primary MAU page) and the X-embedded reach is hard to attribute cleanly, so low confidence on the exact number; reach band is robust.

Capability

4 high confidence
4.0

A capable general assistant interface with a distinctive real-time X-search edge: high feature breadth, but locked to a single provider, so it does not define the category frontier. Grok 4.1 is a frontier model with real-time search integration, rolled out in Auto mode and selectable in the model picker across grok.com, X and the mobile apps, trained with the same large-scale reinforcement-learning infrastructure as Grok 4 - all of it stated by xAI directly. Still no provider breadth beyond xAI's own models.

Verified 2026-08-13