Elon Musk stated in a put up on X early Thursday morning that Grok, the chatbot from his AI firm, xAI, will likely be coming to Tesla automobiles “very quickly.”
“Subsequent week on the newest,” he stated.
The information that Grok can be coming to Tesla automobiles quickly comes a number of hours after xAI debuted the most recent flagship AI mannequin Grok 4. Followers had questioned loudly why Musk spent an hour late on Wednesday speaking about Grok with no point out of a Tesla integration, which probably prompted the billionaire’s early morning announcement.
The replace additionally comes as changes to Grok have made the chatbot extra susceptible to misbehavior – together with making anti-semitic feedback, slating the Democrats, and even rape threats. X took down Grok briefly on Wednesday to try to resolve the issue.
Musk is understood for making Tesla-related bulletins on X, the social media platform he owns, oftentimes earlier than he even tells his personal engineers. On this case, they may have seen it coming. Musk has teased that Grok would find yourself in Tesla automobiles as an AI assistant for months, saying that Tesla drivers would have the ability to chat conversationally with their automobiles and ask Grok to carry out sure duties.
Whereas poking round in Tesla’s firmware, a hacker who goes by the identify “inexperienced” final week discovered that drivers can select between sure Grok “personalities,” together with ones which can be NSFW (not protected for work). There appear to be a lot of personalities to select from, together with argumentative, conspiracy, children story, horny, therapist, unhinged, and extra.
Inexperienced’s findings additionally recommend that Grok will solely be obtainable on newer automobiles with {Hardware} 3.
Grok may also be the voice and mind for Tesla’s humanoid robotic Optimus, Musk confirmed not too long ago.
