Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal:
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to about 8.3 million in April, from a peak of more than 20 million in January; Recon Analytics Reports U.S. Grok Paid Adoption Remains Nearly Flat YoY in Q2— Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent company SpaceX leases unused computing capacity to compete with Anthropic.
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