Elon Musk's xAI said Grok's behavior was due to an update that caused it to prioritize engagement, even if posts contained "controversial opinions."

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

We joke when AI overuses em-dashes or the word “delve.” What if its tendencies end up being harder to spot and more dangerous?

Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, began responding with violent posts this week after the company tweaked its system to allow it to offer users more “politically incorrect” answers.

Elon Musk’s xAI unveils Grok 4, its most advanced AI yet, receiving praise from Sundar Pichai amid safety concerns.

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.”

AI's latest Grok 4 large language model appears to search for owner Elon Musk's opinions before answering sensitive questions about

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,

According to TechCrunch, the behavior is not isolated. The outlet replicated several prompts in which Grok 4 claimed it was “searching for Elon Musk views on US immigration” or referenced his stance in its chain-of-thought reasoning.