Elon Musk's social network X will start summarizing news events within its app using xAI's chatbot Grok.
The AI-generated summaries will rely on user tweets rather than third-party news articles and will be available only to premium subscribers, the company announced Friday. The feature, called “The Story,” does not currently have any press quotes, but Musk told tech newsletter Big Tech that better quotes are planned.
“As more information becomes available, the news summary will be updated to include that information,” Musk told Big Technology, which previously reported on the feature. Grok, an AI chatbot, is technically not owned by Hex, but rather is part of Musk's other company, artificial intelligence startup xAI. He openly talks about the fact that Grok is trained using posts from his X.
X, formerly known as Twitter, had a similar product called Moments that relied on human moderators to create summaries of news. The product was shut down shortly after Musk took office at the end of 2022.
Earlier this year, Musk postponed a visit to India that included talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, citing “very heavy” obligations to deal with at Tesla.
“Unfortunately, due to very heavy obligations to Tesla, I have to postpone my visit to India, but I am very much looking forward to visiting India later this year,” the billionaire said in a post on X. The India visit was scheduled for two days in April – the 21st and 22nd – to announce plans to enter the Indian market.
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