The new Grok 3 AI (beta, so no Voice Mode, as yet) is today reported to be… “free to all X [Twitter] users for a limited period”. I find it also available through Grok.com to Google accounts, at present, though it takes a while to load and will likely take longer once the idiots hear the news and start pounding the site.

I tested Grok 3 + Deep Search on a very obscure and complex Tolkien question, one which you would not find the answer to on wikis, and had an impressive, detailed and correct answer. Its DeepSearch module…

“acts as a smart agent, quickly gathering key information, analyzing conflicting facts, and simplifying complex topics”.

The speedy result was quite verbose, almost a mini-essay, and there were a few sentences that steered close to being boilerplate generalisations. But Grok 3 picked up an impressive 13 of the 16 points that one could make, if a scholar was deeply comparing the similarities between two different characters (one from The Hobbit and the other from LoTR).

After the unspecified free period, Grok 3 + Deep Search will effectively only be available via the most expensive top-tier Twitter [X] subscription. Since it’s currently the best in the world according to the bench-test rankings on such things, now might be the time for impoverished scholars to make free use of this powerful AI (which, as a bonus, is also said to be relatively unbiased politically and also ‘free-speech friendly’).

May not be accessible in Europe, due to their AI regulations. But I can use from the UK.