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In today’s fast-paced business world, companies are constantly seeking ways to improve their customer service and streamline their data management processes. Zapier, a renowned automation platform, ...

The chatbot revolution has taken the world by storm. Many businesses are incorporating them into a multitude of their processes to increase sales, cut costs, gather data, create long-lasting ...

Chatbots are contributing to businesses of all kinds from a customer service, marketing, and sales perspective. Aside from proving to be a valuable return on investment, they're allowing companies ...

X has made its Grok chatbot free to all users. Grok is developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company that was spun up as a response to OpenAI. The news doesn’t come as a surprise as some users noticed ...

Chinese tech firm Baidu is heating up the country’s AI price war by promising to offer access to ERNIE Bot, its AI chatbot, for free. Starting April 1, ERNIE Bot, the company’s chatbot first released ...

Google Gemini has come a long way. From its former life as Bard, where its hallucinating inaccuracies sent Google's stock price tumbling, to a rebrand as Gemini, where its hallucinating inaccuracies ...

Baidu, China’s largest internet search company, announced that it will offer its AI chatbot Ernie Bot for free starting April 1, as competition in the AI sector heats up. The AI service will be ...

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According to a report by TechCrunch, the Grok-2 AI chatbot could soon be available to the free users of X. It is coming to free X users in select areas across the globe soon. Notably, multiple reports ...