Elon Musk-Owned X Will Use Grok AI to Summarise Information Occasions

X, the social community owned by Elon Musk, will begin summarizing information occasions contained in the app through the use of xAI’s chatbot, Grok

The AI-generated summaries will depend on consumer tweets — not third-party information articles — and can solely be accessible to premium subscribers, the corporate introduced on Friday. The function, referred to as “Tales,” would not presently cite any information shops, however Musk informed the tech publication Huge Know-how that higher citations are on the best way. 

“As extra data turns into accessible, the information abstract will replace to incorporate that data,” Musk informed Huge Know-how, which reported earlier on the function. Grok, the AI chatbot, is just not technically owned by X however is as an alternative a part of xAI, a synthetic intelligence startup that’s one other of Musk’s firms. He is spoken brazenly about the truth that Grok is educated utilizing posts from X.  

X, previously often called Twitter, used to have an identical product referred to as Moments that relied on human moderators to create information summaries. That product was shut down shortly after Musk took over in late 2022. 

Earlier this 12 months, Musk postponed a go to to India which might have included a gathering with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he has to cope with “very heavy” obligations at Tesla. 

“Sadly, very heavy Tesla obligations require that the go to to India be delayed, however I do very a lot sit up for visiting later this 12 months,” the billionaire mentioned in a submit on X. He had been scheduled to go to for 2 days — April 21 and 22 — to announce plans to enter the Indian market. 

© 2024 Bloomberg LP


Affiliate hyperlinks could also be routinely generated – see our ethics assertion for particulars.