Elon Musk says he has never seen anything grow as fast as Grok Bot and notes it has no free tier
Never seen anything grow as fast as @Grok @Bot! And there is no free tier, which means people are deriving real value in excess of what they pay. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
Context
Musk is pointing to paid growth as evidence of real value, though he gives no user or revenue figures to back the claim.
This is a first hand claim from Musk about his own product, without data. He was quoting a promotional clip post by the account spectnfa about Jensen Huang's BG2 comments, which ends by pushing readers to an article on making money with Grok Bot.
Deep dive
On October 15, Elon Musk posted: Never seen anything grow as fast as Grok Bot! He added that there is no free tier, which means people are deriving real value in excess of what they pay, and closed with: As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
He was quoting a post from the account spectnfa, which shared a clip of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the BG2 podcast. The post summarized Huang as saying Musk trains and runs his own models on Nvidia chips, that demand for Grok Bot is climbing fast, and that Musk also rents compute to other companies. The same clip, posted by the show's own account, quotes Huang saying the consumption for Grok Bot is really skyrocketing.
Minutes earlier, Musk posted that Grok Bot improves significantly every day, quoting another user's post.
Musk did not give subscriber numbers, revenue or growth rates, so the claim cannot be checked. Grok Bot is made by SpaceX, which Musk runs.
What to expect next
Watch for any concrete usage or revenue numbers from SpaceX, which would show how fast Grok Bot is actually growing.
Also watch whether the lack of a free tier holds as rival agents from OpenAI and Anthropic compete for the same users, and whether Nvidia's comments about demand show up in SpaceX's compute buying. Independent data from app trackers or analysts would be the first outside check on the claim.