X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, will begin summarizing news events within the app using xAI's chatbot, Grok.
The AI-generated summaries will be based on users' tweets, not third-party news articles, and will only be available to premium subscribers, the company announced Friday. The feature, called “Stories,” doesn't currently cite any news feeds, but Musk told tech newsletter Big Technology that better citations are on the way.
“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, the AI chatbot, isn't technically owned by X, but is part of xAI, an artificial intelligence startup that's another of Musk's companies. He has been open about the fact that Grok is trained using X posts.
X, formerly known as Twitter, used to have a similar product called Moments that relied on human moderators to create news summaries. This product was shut down shortly after Musk took over in late 2022.
Earlier this year, Musk postponed a visit to India that would have included a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he had to deal with “very heavy” obligations at Tesla.
“Unfortunately, Tesla's very heavy obligations require the visit to India to be delayed, but I look forward to visiting later this year,” the billionaire said in a post on X. He planned to visit for two days in April. 21 and 22 — to announce plans to enter the Indian market.
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