What is Grok and what is its purpose?

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Grok is xAI’s signature AI chatbot and is designed to provide insightful responses with wit, sarcasm, and personality. Modeled after Douglas Adams’s novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Grok has access to real-time information from the social media platform X, enabling near-live awareness of current events, and can perform tasks such as creative writing and data analysis.