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 cellular 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 lately, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that Grok 3 would make a lot of an impression. OpenAI’s ChatGPT alone has grown to 400 million weekly energetic customers. Nevertheless, preliminary knowledge means that the brand new mannequin has certainly gotten individuals to obtain and check out Grok.
In accordance with estimates from Sensor Tower, a market intelligence agency, worldwide and U.S. cellular 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. Every day energetic customers for Grok’s U.S. app soared greater than 260% final week, in the meantime, whereas international day by day energetic customers climbed 5x week-over-week.
Muddying the waters considerably is the truth that Grok 3’s launch coincided with the Grok app’s growth to a number of markets in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. A few of the app’s international development is probably going attributable to this.
Grok’s internet app additionally noticed development over the identical interval, although, impartial of the cellular apps. In accordance with digital intelligence platform SimilarWeb, U.S. day by day visits to the Grok internet 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 large 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. Just a few days earlier, customers found that Grok 3 would constantly say that President Trump and Musk deserve the loss of life penalty. xAI rapidly patched that difficulty, as nicely.
