Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk’s attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.

The lack of public response from advertisers stands in stark contrast to their response in 2023 following an antisemitic post from Elon Musk.

Grok 4 aligns its answers with Elon Musk's when it comes to controversial issues, users have discovered shortly after the company launched the new model.

E lon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, recently went viral after it firmly shut down a user who made a racist comment targeting Indians on the social media platform X. The incident, which unfolded in a thread about American demographics, sparked widespread applause for Grok’s data-backed and unapologetic responses.

Poland's Deputy PM Krzysztof Gawkowski calls on the European Commission to investigate Elon Musk’s chatbot over hate speech violations and threats to public safety.

On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared itself to be a robot version of Hitler, spewing antisemitic hate and racist conspiracy theories. This followed X owner Elon Musk’s declaration over the weekend that he was insisting Grok be less “politically correct.”