Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok, the chatbot from his AI company, xAI, will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.”
“Next week at the latest,” he said.
The news that Grok would be coming to Tesla vehicles soon comes several hours after xAI debuted the latest flagship AI model Grok 4. Fans had wondered loudly why Musk spent an hour late on Wednesday talking about Grok with no mention of a Tesla integration, which likely prompted the billionaire’s early morning announcement.
The update also comes as adjustments to Grok have made the chatbot more prone to misbehavior – including making anti-semitic comments, slating the Democrats, and even rape threats. X took down Grok temporarily on Wednesday to attempt to solve the problem.
Musk is known for making Tesla-related announcements on X, the social media platform he owns, oftentimes before he even tells his own engineers. In this case, they might have seen it coming. Musk has teased that Grok would end up in Tesla vehicles as an AI assistant for months, saying that Tesla drivers would be able to chat conversationally with their cars and ask Grok to perform certain tasks.
While poking around in Tesla’s firmware, a hacker who goes by the name “green” last week found that drivers can choose between certain Grok “personalities,” including ones that are NSFW (not safe for work). There seem to be a lot of personalities to choose from, including argumentative, conspiracy, kids story, sexy, therapist, unhinged, and more.
Green’s findings also suggest that Grok will only be available on newer vehicles with Hardware 3.
Grok will also be the voice and brain for Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus, Musk confirmed recently.
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