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From another AI (whatever DuckDuckGo is using):

> As of early 2025, X (formerly Twitter) has approximately 586 million active monthly users. The platform continues to grow, with a significant portion of its user base located in the United States and Japan.

Whatever portion of those is active are surely aware of Grok.

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If hundreds of millions of real people are aware of Grok (which is dubious), then billions of people are aware of ChatGPT. If you ask a bunch of random people on the street whether they’ve heard of a) ChatGPT and b) Grok, what do you expect the results to be?

That depends. Is the street in SoMa?

Gay bears prefer Claude though

Gotta head to pac heights to find any grok users (probably)

Good grief, do not use LLMs to find this sort of statistic.

Why ever not?

That could be just an AI hallucination.

Yes it could, and we could be sceptical of any source, quite rightly, but to be sceptical without any further investigation or reasoning would be just as wasteful as blindly trusting a source.

Which source would you prefer?

most of them are bots. I guess their own LLMs are probably aware of Grok, so technically correct.

This is what the kids call cope.

Yeah.

I got news for you, most women my mother's age out here in flyover country also don't use X. So even if everyone on X knows of Grok's existence, which they don't, it wouldn't move the needle at all on a lot of these mass market segments. Because X is not used by the mass market. It's a tech bro political jihadi wannabe influencer hell hole of a digital ghetto.

That's a very US-centric comment.

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