Simply hours after Elon Musk’s xAI launched its newest AI mannequin Grok 3, the billionaire’s different firm X (previously Twitter) additionally elevated the costs of its Premium+ subscription plan.
xAI has launched Grok 3. Shortly after, X additionally elevated the costs of its Premium+ plan. Verify if this affected costs in India(AFP)
Entry to all fashions of Grok are restricted to Premium and Premium+ subscribers of X. The worth for the top-tier plan has been nearly doubled, from $22 per 30 days to about $50 per 30 days.
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That is the second enhance within the plan’s pricing over the previous couple of months. X had hiked the worth of the Premium+ plan in December final yr, rising it from $16 per 30 days to $22 per 30 days.
In accordance with TechCrunch, the pricing on the social media platform’s web site isn’t uniform. The plan reveals it’s going to value about $40 per 30 days (about $478 per yr) however the ultimate check-out web page confirmed that it’d ultimately value $395 for a yr.
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Additionally, whereas X’s help web page says a month-to-month subscription prices $50, the sign-up web page lists a $48.40 per 30 days value, and the check-out web page is charging $40 a month.
Are Indians affected by X’s value hike?
In accordance with the pricing of Premium+ plan for Indian customers, the quantity stays the identical. On a month-to-month foundation, the plan will value ₹1,750 and it’ll value ₹18,300 on an annual foundation.
The fundamental plan will value ₹243.75 per 30 days or ₹2,590.48 per yr whereas the mid-tier Premium plan has been priced at ₹650 per 30 days and ₹6,800 per yr.
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Thus, all in all, the pricing throughout the three tiers of plans appears to stay unchanged for Indian customers for now.
Grok 3 launch
Grok 3 makes use of 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to offer 200 million GPU-hours for coaching which exceeded Grok 2 by ten occasions. The massive-scale set up of extra computational energy in Grok 3 permits it to run large datasets in a shorter time-frame whereas offering enhanced accuracy.
Elon Musk known as Grok 3 the “smart AI on Earth” and stated he thinks it’s “scary smart”.