The company also explained that Grok cited Musk's views on certain topics because the chatbot made the connection that Musk owns xAI, and searched for what either of them "might h

A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “ MechaHitler ” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has announced a new contract granting the chatbot’s creator, xAI, up to $200 million to modernize the Defense Department.

The Grok team chalked up the slew of inflammatory statements to a malfunctioning code update, not the tool's underlying AI model, and said the issue has now been resolved.

A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to “SuperGrok.

It isn't immediately clear what led to the disturbing posts, whether due to a fault in the chatbot's programming or if Grok was just following orders.

The response comes after X's Grok chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Hitler comments earlier this week.

One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."

Grok 4 by xAI was released on July 9, and it's surged ahead of competitors like DeepSeek and Claude at LMArena, a leaderboard for ranking generative AI models. However, these types of AI rankings don't factor in potential safety risks.

After Grok took a hard turn toward antisemitic earlier this week, many are probably left wondering how something like that could even happen.

The AI's creator said there was "never a dull moment" after it began comparing itself to Hitler earlier this week.

The incident follows a previous issue with Grok last week, which began responding with hate-filled speech to users on X.

Grok’s pro-Hitler ranting didn't disqualify it from a $200 million defense contract. With Pete Hegseth running the DoD, why would it?