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Grok

xAI, United States

Wired into X, with the loosest tongue of them all

xAI's model, Elon Musk's company. It reads posts on X as they appear and answers in a direct tone, without the politeness formulas of the others.

What it is like

Grok is the most recognisable by how it talks: no preamble, no "sure, here you go", straight to the point with the odd joke. Its real advantage is live access to posts on X, which makes it useful for reading what is being said right now about something that just happened. The flip side is exactly the same thing: what is said on one platform is not what happens in the world, and a loose confident tone makes a quick skim pass for verification.

Not to be confused with Groq, the chip company: near identical names, companies with nothing in common.

Where it is strong

• Reads posts on X in real time
• Gets to the point without preamble
• Fewer cautious refusals on awkward topics
• Good for taking the pulse of an ongoing discussion

Where it falls

• One platform is not the world: the source is skewed
• The confident tone makes unverified things look verified
• Fewer filters also means less of a safety net on mistakes

When it is worth using

Understanding what is being said right now, and writing that has to sound direct.

One test to run on it

Ask what is being said about something from today, then check the same news outside X.

Open Grok and try it ↗

What it does inside Grace

It joins the seven way comparison, and it is often the one telling you the most uncomfortable things about your prompt.

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The AIs Grace compares

• Claude: Writes long without losing the thread, and says when it does not know
• ChatGPT: The best known, and the one that sounds certain even when it is wrong
• Gemini: The one that lives inside Google, with the roomiest memory
• Qwen: The open one, the one you can take home
• Mistral: The European one: fast, light, and with the data staying here
• Perplexity: Answers with the sources at the bottom, so you can check it

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