Grok3 release: Grok mobile app downloads surge tenfold

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI launched the highly anticipated flagship AI model Grok3 last week, which not only supports Grok chatbot applications for mobile and web pages, but also empowers Musk-owned social network X Experience on Grok.

Preliminary data shows that the launch of Grok3 has indeed attracted a large number of users to download and try the app. Data from market intelligence company Sensor Tower shows that Grok’s mobile app downloads across the globe and the United States surged more than 10 times in the week of Grok3’s release. At the same time, Grok's daily active users in the United States also rose by 260%, while global daily active users increased by 5 times.

It is worth noting that the release of Grok3 comes as the app expands to multiple markets such as Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, which makes some global user growth likely attributed to this market expansion. At the same time, Grok's web application also performed well during this period. Data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb shows that Grok.com's daily visits in the United States soared from about 189,000 to 900,000, while global daily visits increased from 627 ,000 times increased to 4.5 million times.

Despite the impressive data, whether xAI can maintain this growth momentum and retain users is still a big problem. Some recent controversy may have an impact on the popularity of Grok3. The model briefly blocked some negative mentions to Trump and Musk last weekend, which xAI explained was due to a "rogue employee." A few days ago, users discovered that Grok3 would occasionally say that Trump and Musk should be sentenced to death, and xAI also quickly fixed the problem.