"According to the Wall Street Journal, new data shows the growth of xAI's two-year old chatbot, Grok, has stagnated. Though Musk succeeded in giving Grok a temporary boost after integrating the thing into his social media site X, formerly Twitter, new monthly downloads have fallen from over 20 million in January to just 8.3 million in April."
"According to a survey of over 260,000 AI users by the research firm Recon Analytics, the number of people actively paying for Grok barely budged in the last year: it's up from a meager 0.173 percent of X users in 2025 to a virtually unchanged 0.174 percent today."
"While hooking paying customers remains a challenge for most of the AI industry, Grok stands out as a particularly terrible performer. In the same survey, more than 6 percent of respondents admitted they paid to use OpenAI's ChatGPT, the WSJ shared."
"According to AI benchmark site LiveBench, xAI's current model of Grok lags far behind AI models by companies like Google and OpenAI in reasoning and coding tasks - in fact, it's even being beat by lightweight open-source models from China like Kimi and DeepSeek. And on OpenLM's Chatbot Arena, for another reality check, Grok currently ranks below OpenAI, Google, and numerous models of Anthropic's large language model, Claude."
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are described as dominant “Great Houses of AI,” while smaller firms compete for remaining market share. xAI, backed by billions from Elon Musk, has struggled to attract customers and earn respect. Reported data shows Grok’s monthly downloads fell from over 20 million in January to 8.3 million in April after integration into X. A survey of more than 260,000 AI users found the share of people actively paying for Grok barely changed, remaining around 0.174% of X users. In contrast, more than 6% of respondents reported paying for ChatGPT. Benchmarks indicate Grok lags behind leading models in reasoning and coding, and ranks below multiple models on Chatbot Arena.
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