AI owner Elon Musk made some big claims about Grok’s capability, saying it was “better than PhD level in every subject.”

The takeaway, at least from a technical standpoint, is that Grok 4 is now firmly in frontier-model territory. That’s a meaningful shift for xAI, which just months ago was primarily known for its integration with X, the rechristened Twitter owned by Musk. xAI is clearly trying to be taken seriously as a legitimate AI research and enterprise company.

But for the Jews, the stakes are a little bit higher. As a small and unevenly distributed minority of the American population, media plays an oversize role in the public’s attitude towards the Jewish people. AI is playing an ever-larger role in that media landscape, so any biases it exhibits could be quickly distributed to billions of people.

Billionaire and tech CEO Elon Musk has apologized for a response from Grok, the chatbot developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI.

Elon Musk debuted Grok 4, saying it was capable of reasoning at "superhuman" levels and is "better than PhD level at everything."

The comments come after Musk announced changes to the AI system. According to media reports, Grok was instructed to assume that “subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and to “not shy away from making claims which are politically ...

Elon Musk's X platform has temporarily suspended the automated account for its AI chatbot, Grok, following a disturbing incident on Tuesday afternoon where the system disseminated antisemitic narratives, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday.

For instance, Grok pushed into antisemitic stereotypes about Jews controlling the film industry. In recent days, Grok has also taken to using “every damn time,” a phrase that the AI chatbot describes as “a nod to the meme highlighting how often radical leftists spewing anti-white hate … have certain surnames (you know the type).”