{"id":17043,"date":"2025-02-20T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17043"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:26:01","slug":"free-grok-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/02\/20\/free-grok-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Grok 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Grok 3 AI (beta, so no Voice Mode, as yet) is today reported to be&#8230; &#8220;free to all X [Twitter] users for a limited period&#8221;. I find it also available through <a href=\"https:\/\/grok.com\/\">Grok.com<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;acts as a smart agent, quickly gathering key information, analyzing conflicting facts, and simplifying complex topics&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 <em>The Hobbit<\/em> and the other from <em>LoTR<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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 &#8216;free-speech friendly&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>May not be accessible in Europe, due to their AI regulations. But I can use from the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Grok 3 AI (beta, so no Voice Mode, as yet) is today reported to be&#8230; &#8220;free to all X [Twitter] users for a limited period&#8221;. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18010,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions\/18010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}