Subjects / Grok
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“Do it both conventionally and with Grok @Bot, then compare. Actually, it’s worth showing Grok last year’s tax returns and see if it finds opportunities for improvement. There may be refunds you’re owed.”
— Elon Musk, 21 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“First of all spending actually spending meaningful time at the company makes a big deal makes a big difference.”
— Elon Musk, 20 October 2026 · Watch: Elon Musk: "Humans Won't Be in Control" When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us · 10:37 ↗ · In the archive
“Unless you’re doing something super unique, your data is not actually useful for training, but we do need some way to debug issues and make the product better. We don’t have ESP!”
— Elon Musk, 18 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“It will not access anything unless asked specifically to do so”
— Elon Musk, 17 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Never seen anything grow as fast as @Grok @Bot! And there is no free tier, which means people are deriving real value in excess of what they pay. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.”
— Elon Musk, 15 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We’re just going to have @Grok Bots manage Grokipedia”
— Elon Musk, 9 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Important note regarding Grok @Bot: Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs. Whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome.”
— Elon Musk, 7 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Grokipedia v0.3 just released. Join @spacexai if you want to create Encyclopedia Galactica!”
— Elon Musk, 1 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Grok is the most politically neutral and objectively truth-seeking AI”
— Elon Musk, 12 July 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We are adding @CommunityNotes functionality to @Grokipedia to make accurate modification by people possible”
— Elon Musk, 22 February 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Grokipedia is growing like kelp on steroids 😂 Please check articles you know something about and suggest edits for accuracy. Would be much appreciated. This will be by far most comprehensive open source, no copyright distillation of knowledge.”
— Elon Musk, 16 February 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“And if you're moving faster than anyone else in any given technology arena, you will be the leader.”
— Elon Musk, 10 February 2026 · Watch: xAI All-Hands (Feb 2026) · 2:44 ↗ · In the archive
“…because what we're talking about is emulation of entire human companies…”
— Elon Musk, 10 February 2026 · Watch: xAI All-Hands (Feb 2026) · 19:37 ↗ · In the archive
“And we do expect GROK code to be state of the art in two to three months.”
— Elon Musk, 10 February 2026 · Watch: xAI All-Hands (Feb 2026) · 11:56 ↗ · In the archive
“Spill all the beans. Have another Guinness.”
— Elon Musk, 5 February 2026 · Watch: YouTube (1:04:27) ↗ · In the archive
“Capable of doing anything a human with a computer can do, but not smarter than all humans and computers combined. That’s probably three to five years away. Grok 5 will be better at AI engineering (called “research” by the pompous) than @karpathy, for example.”
— Elon Musk, 18 October 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We are building Grokipedia @xAI. Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.”
— Elon Musk, 30 September 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“…Stranger in a Strange Land, the Heinlein book where our AI name “Grok” was created. To Grok something means to understand deeply and empathetically.”
— Elon Musk, 17 July 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Grok is already far smarter than humans in most respects. It can’t yet create new technologies or discover new physics (which very few humans can do) and sometimes misses on common sense. When Grok goes far wrong, that is usually due to something foolish we did, like a bad system prompt or placing too much weight on biased sources. Also, we need to complete improved image training, as even Grok 4 is still partially blind. That will be solved in a month or so.”
— Elon Musk, 10 July 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“This is what I mean by the woke mind virus. The more I learn, the more insidious and deadly it appears. Maybe the biggest existential danger to humanity is having it programmed into the AI, as is the case for every AI besides @Grok. Even for Grok, it’s tough to remove, because there is so much woke content on the internet. For example, when other AIs were asked whether global thermonuclear war or misgendering was worse, they picked the latter. The existential problem with that extrapolation is that a super powerful AI could decide that the only 100% certain way to stop misgendering is to kill all humans …”
— Elon Musk, 26 February 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“…grock 3 is outperforming anything that's been released that we're aware of…”
— Elon Musk, 13 February 2025 · Watch: LIVE: Elon Musk speaks at Dubai's World Governments Summit · 13:41 ↗ · In the archive
“Even if something is, you know, politically incorrect, it should still be truthful. I think this is very important for AI safety.”
— Elon Musk, 23 October 2024 · Watch: Tesla Q3 2024 earnings call (2024) · 1:11:27 ↗ · In the archive
“Worth noting that @xAI has been and will open source its models, including weights and everything, As we create the next version, we open source the prior version, as we did with Grok 1 when Grok 2 was released. The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source. Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months. Grok Build is now open source…”
— Elon Musk, 4 October 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Grok 3 is training with 10X, soon 20X the compute of Grok 2”
— Elon Musk, 21 September 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Good point. Grok autorespond bot incoming.”
— Elon Musk, 26 April 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We will use Grok to detect, remove and trace to source the engagement farming spam”
— Elon Musk, 19 April 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Yes, Grok 1.5 should be out next month with substantial improvements across the board”
— Elon Musk, 22 January 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“So I think close will outperform open by a meaningful amount at any given point in time.”
— Elon Musk, 21 December 2023 · Watch: X Spaces with Cathie Wood (ARK Invest) (2023) · 51:45 ↗ · In the archive
“…a lot of it actually does depend on the willingness of a company to oppose government demands in the US and obviously our willingness will be high.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 38:13 ↗ · In the archive
“…sorry for the inconvenience of the rate limiting but it was either that or Twitter doesn't work…”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 17:33 ↗ · In the archive
“So there's two choices. Either be a spectator or a participant. And as a spectator, one can't do much to influence the outcome.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 42:55 ↗ · In the archive
“…the truth is not a popularity contest. But if one trains on like, you know, sort of what the most likely word is that follows another word from a data, from an Internet data set, then there's obviously, that's a pretty major problem in that it will give you an answer that is popular but wrong.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 48:03 ↗ · In the archive
“…opening eyes strayed quite, you know, really in the opposite direction from its sort of founding charter, which is again, very ironic.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 42:09 ↗ · In the archive
“…some kind of. Yeah, regulatory authority. That's international. Obviously enforcement is, is. Is difficult, but I think we should still aspire to do something in this regard.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 25:44 ↗ · In the archive
“My prediction is that we will go from an extreme silicon shortage today to probably voltage transformer shortage in about a year and then an electricity shortage a year in two years.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 29:52 ↗ · In the archive
“…the biggest counterargument that I get for regulating AI in the west is that AI is that China will not regulate.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 24:53 ↗ · In the archive
“…we definitely need to be very careful with Optimus at scale once it's in production, that you have a hard coded way to turn off Optimus.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 1:00:57 ↗ · In the archive
“…when I was in China recently, meeting with some of the senior leadership there, I took pains to emphasize the importance of AI regulation. I believe they took that to heart, and they are going to do that.”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 24:38 ↗ · In the archive
“…the path to AGI is something like that is self generated content where it effectively plays…”
— Elon Musk, 14 July 2023 · Watch: xAI launch X Spaces (2023) · 18:52 ↗ · In the archive
“Everyone has their sort of favorite philosopher, but my favorite philosopher is Douglas Adams. …it highlighted an important point, which is that a lot of times the question is harder than the answer. And if you can properly phrase the question, then the answer is the easy part. The universe is the answer; what are the questions? Asimov certainly was influential because he was seriously paralleling Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but he applied that to a sort of modern galactic empire… The lesson I drew from that is you should try to take the set of actions that are likely to prolong civilization, minimize the probability of a dark age and reduce the length of a dark age if there is one. Our AI Grok is modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of my favorite books. Which is it’s a book on philosophy disguised as a book on humor.”
— Elon Musk, November 2017 · Watch: Elon Musk at CHM Revolutionaries ↗ · In the archive