[buildfocus]

My impression is that Grok is very rarely used in practice outside of a niche of die-hard users, partly because of very different tuning to other models, and partly the related public reputation around it.

https://firstpagesage.com/reports/top-generative-ai-chatbots... suggests 0.6% of chat use cases, well below the other big names, and I suspect those stats for chat are higher than other scenarios like business usage. Given all that, I can see how Gemini might not be focused on competing with them.

[npn]

well, there are 3 kind of usages for grok: - using grok inside X/Twitter: most people interacts with Grok this way. - using grok on its website: this is really annoying, as you get delayed by cloudflare everytime you access the site. As grok does not provide serious advantage over other services, why bother - you can also use the app, but it is not as convenient as other services.

it is understandable that grok is not popular.

[ohyoutravel]

I don’t know anyone who uses Grok, but in my peer group everyone uses 1-2 paid services like Gemini or Clause or ChatGPT. They’re probably not as “extremely online” as I am, so I can’t generalize this thought, but anecdotally my impression has been that Grok is just very “right wing influencer” coded.