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.

A former professor and the founder of his own AI company, Howard noticed that if he asked Grok about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the chatbot seemed to cross-check Elon’s tweets before regurgitating an answer.

As Grok fired off replies on X praising Hitler, the chatbot's parent company also recently got permission to emit 97 tons of carbon monoxide per year to keep it running.

Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, has praised Hitler, dabbled in Holocaust denialism and ranted about “white genocide” in South Africa. That’s happening because of Grok’s instructions and training material,

Some X users suddenly became the subject of violent ideations by xAI’s flagship chatbot.

Elon Musk unveiled the newest edition of xAI's flagship AI model, Grok, late Wednesday night in a livestream video that touted Grok 4's prowess at topping benchmark scores.Why it matters: xAI is in an accelerating race with OpenAI,

Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and outpace rivals such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s o3 on tough benchmarks

Grok 4 was released approximately one day after xAI addressed and deleted inappropriate posts by the chatbot on X, which included antisemitic remarks.