AI explained why Grok 4 seemed to search for Elon Musk's opinions when asked about some hot-button topics.

The companions have their own X accounts, because of course they do. Ani's bio states, "Smooth, a little unpredictable—I might dance, tease, or just watch you figure me out. Let’s keep it chill… or not." Meanwhile, Rudy's just says, "The Only Pet in Grok Companion."

As for why Grok was consulting Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, the company wrote, “The model reasons that as an AI it doesn’t have an opinion but knowing it was Grok 4 by xAI, searches to see what xAI or Elon Musk might have said on a topic to align itself with the company.”

A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon Musk's xAI has landed a US military contract worth up to $200 million. xAI announced a "Grok for Government" service after getting the contract with the US Department of Defense.

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, revealed that its chatbot Grok will no longer base its responses on Musk’s ideology. The firm confirmed that they adjusted Grok’s software to solve the problem and shared the details on GitHub for transparency xAI noted that the new updated version of the chatbot,

Elon Musk's xAI startup is swimming in controversy after launching Grok 4, the latest version of its snarky AI chatbot. Last week, the company boasted that Grok 4 achieved higher scores than quite a few other large language models (LLMs) on various industry benchmarks.

The Department of Defense has announced contracts with four leading artificial intelligence companies, including Elon Musk's xAI, a week after its Grok chatbot allegedly disseminated racist rhetoric online.

In a post to Musk’s social media platform X, xAI unveiled Grok for Government, “a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers.” The deal marks a significant step for Musk’s AI.