ChatGPT
AI Assistants & LLMs
The all-rounder assistant with images, voice and web search built in.
What is it?
Grok is the assistant from xAI, Elon Musk's AI company. It chats, reasons, searches the web and generates images, and it is also built into X (formerly Twitter).
Its distinctive feature is live access to X. Ask what people are saying about a brand, a news story or a sporting event and it can pull from posts as they happen, which no other assistant does as well. It also has a looser, more opinionated tone than its rivals.
That tone and its X ties are either the appeal or the deal-breaker. For careful business writing, it is not the first pick.
Who it's for
People who follow news, trends or public sentiment closely and want an assistant plugged into X.
Best for
- Tracking what's trending right now
- Gauging public reaction to news
- Casual, conversational answers
- Image generation
Why it made the list
Real-time access to X gives it a view of breaking news and public mood that other assistants lack.
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