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 was rolled out in November 2023, a little more than a year after Elon Musk bought Twitter. Musk wanted to use data that the social-media company had—all of its posts, comments, and images—to help train a large language model called Grok, which came with a chatbot.

NEW YORK: The latest version of xAI's generative artificial intelligence assistant, Grok 4, frequently consults owner Elon Musk's positions on topics before responding.

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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’s training, including how the model is told to respond, and the material it aggregates likely played a role in its spew of hate speech.

AI, made a splash with the release of Grok 4, and the announcement of a new ultra-premium subscription tier, SuperGrok Heavy.

Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was updated over the weekend with instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect” — part of Musk’s ongoing attempt to shape the bot’s point of view.

XAI’s Grok 4 AI chatbot launched Wednesday appears to consult Elon Musk’s views when asked its opinion on some controversial matters.