Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities
AI research assistant searching 138M+ academic papers with sentence-level citations. 2M+ researchers. Raised $33M. Founded 2023 (spun from Ought nonprofit). Private.
Elicit is an AI research assistant spun out in 2023 from Ought (a nonprofit founded in 2017) by CEO Andreas Stuhlmuller. Headquartered in Oakland, California. It has raised $33M total including a $22M Series A (February 2025). Investors include Fifty Years, Basis Set, and angels like Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub) and Jeff Dean (Google).
AI assistant by xAI (Elon Musk); Grok 3 topped reasoning benchmarks in Feb 2025; 1M+ paying subscribers in week one; real-time X post access; distributed via X Premium; xAI valued at $24B.
Grok is the AI assistant developed by xAI, Elon Musk's AI company founded in 2023, and distributed primarily through X (formerly Twitter). Grok launched in November 2023 as an X Premium perk, with the notable differentiator of real-time access to X posts and a less restricted, more direct conversational style. Grok 3, released in February 2025, achieved top scores on the AIME math reasoning benchmark and ARC-AGI test, briefly positioning xAI as a frontier model lab.
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