Grok 3 appears to be driving Grok usage to new heights

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, its long-awaited flagship AI model, last week. Grok 3 powers the Grok chatbot apps for mobile and the web, as well as the Grok experience on the Musk-owned social network X. Given that there’s so much competition in the AI chatbot space these days, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that Grok 3 would make much of an impact. OpenAI’s ChatGPT alone has grown to 400 million weekly active users. However, preliminary data suggests that the new model has indeed gotten people to download and try Grok. According to estimates from Sensor Tower, a market intelligence firm, worldwide and U.S. mobile app downloads of Grok during the week of Grok 3’s release increased more than 10x each compared to the previous week. Daily active users for Grok’s U.S. app soared more than 260% last week, meanwhile, while global daily active users climbed 5x week-over-week. Muddying the waters somewhat is the fact that Grok 3’s release coincided with the Grok app’s expan ... Read full article.