Elon Musk revealed Thursday that his AI chatbot Grok – which has landed in hot water after spreading a barrage of antisemitic and violent posts on X – will appear in Tesla vehicles by next week.
“Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles very soon. Next week at the latest,” Musk wrote in a post on X Thursday morning.
While it’s unknown how Grok will be used in Tesla vehicles, superfans have speculated that it will be used to fine-tune the voice command function and give it more of a customizable personality.
Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI unveiled the latest version of the chatbot, Grok 4, on Wednesday, claiming it’s “the smartest AI in the world.”
Grok currently lives on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that Musk acquired in 2022.
While Musk previously said Grok would make its way to Tesla cars, he had not yet shared a timeline.
XAI did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The world’s richest person, with a net worth of $394.2 billion, has been known to lag behind on the rollout of long-awaited launches, halting the production of humanoid robots and finally introducing Tesla robotaxis in Austin, Texas last month.
A speedy AI update to Tesla vehicles next week would coincide with perhaps Grok’s largest controversy thus far, after the bot on Tuesday praised Adolf Hitler and spread antisemitic hate, calling for people with “certain surnames” to be stripped of their rights and eliminated.
Those posts followed an update to Grok’s software that Musk announced on Friday.
Tweaks to the chatbot also appeared to make Grok more willing to create violent imagery, writing several graphic rape fantasies about Will Stancil, a left-leaning Twitter commentator, and giving users advice on how to break into his home.
The Grok account on Tuesday said xAI “has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X,” though many of the offensive posts remained online Wednesday.
During a live demonstration of Grok 4 on Wednesday, xAI billed the update as “the world’s most powerful AI assistant.”
The company boasted that its bot is incredibly proficient on academic tests, especially questions related to math, science and linguistics.
Musk said he hopes to allow Grok to eventually interact with the world through humanoid robots.
“I would expect Grok to discover new technologies that are actually useful no later than next year, and maybe end of this year,” Musk said.
“It might discover new physics next year…Let that sink in.”
