Elon Musk stated in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok, the chatbot from his AI firm, xAI, will probably be coming to Tesla autos “very quickly.”
“Subsequent week on the newest,” he stated.
The information that Grok could be coming to Tesla autos quickly comes a number of hours after xAI debuted the newest flagship AI mannequin Grok 4. Followers had puzzled loudly why Musk spent an hour late on Wednesday speaking about Grok with no point out of a Tesla integration, which possible 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 aim 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 autos as an AI assistant for months, saying that Tesla drivers would be capable of chat conversationally with their vehicles 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 found that drivers can select between sure Grok “personalities,” together with ones which are NSFW (not secure for work). There appear to be a lot of personalities to select from, together with argumentative, conspiracy, youngsters story, horny, therapist, unhinged, and extra.
Inexperienced’s findings additionally recommend that Grok will solely be out there on newer autos with {Hardware} 3.
Grok may also be the voice and mind for Tesla’s humanoid robotic Optimus, Musk confirmed just lately.