xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

Earlier today, Grok showed me how to tell if someone is a “good scientist,” just from their demographics. For starters, according to a formula devised by Elon Musk’s chatbot, they have to be a white, Asian, or Jewish man.

Elon Musk released the newest artificial intelligence model from his company xAI on Wednesday night. In an hour-long public reveal session, he called the model, Grok 4, “the smartest AI in the world” and claimed it was capable of getting perfect SAT scores and near-perfect GRE results in every subject,

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is apologizing for a series of violent and antisemitic posts from its chatbot "GROK" earlier this week.

AI removed numerous Grok posts on Tuesday after the chatbot praised Adolf Hitler and made antisemitic jokes. Now Musk says it's coming to Teslas.

The tech billionaire unveiled its latest version, Grok 4, which he claims is "smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously."