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Japanese users , which is X ’s second - largest user al-Qaeda , would then follow with the heading of bringing Grok to “ hopefully ” all languages by “ early 2024 , ” the X owner say .
There will be many upshot at first , but require rapid improvement almost every daylight . Your feedback is much appreciate .
Will expand to all English language users in about a workweek or so . Japanese is next …
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)December 8 , 2023
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Whether or not the chatbot is a success in drive subscription gross for XTC still persist to be image . For now , Grok is only part of X ’s top - level subscription oblation — the $ 16 per month Premium+ . That ’s much pricier than X ’s Basic ( $ 3 / mo ) and Premium ( $ 8 / mo ) options , and it ’s not clear it will appeal to casual AI dabblers who can employ rival chatbots like ChatGPT or Google ’s Bard for complimentary .
But so far , subscriptions have n’t drive the majority of X , formerly Twitter ’s revenue — advertizement has .
Yet now , it ’s unclear what X ’s ad - plunk for hereafter may take care like as Musk has been alienating X ’s advertisers — eventelling them to “ fuck yourself”for leaving go over concern of antisemitic content on the web site . For X to be sustainable , it may need a larger issue of user to support to Premium+ for Grok to help shore up up theloss of ad dollarsasbrands like Apple , Disney , IBM , Paramount , Walmart and others flee the political platform .
Of observe , X had its with child - ever month for subscription tax revenue in November , pulling in $ 6.2 million in net revenue , after app store fees , according to one approximation by app intelligence operation providerApptopia . However , that ’s still less than a third of what Snapchat made for its own in - app subscription , whichtopped $ 20 million for the first time last month .
