xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

The Indian-origin head of infrastructure engineering at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has resigned to join OpenAI.

Elon Musks artificial intelligence startup xAI has secured a $2 billion investment from SpaceX as part of a $5 billion equity round, according to The Wall Street Journal. The funding deepens the integration between

Elon Musk's xAI faced internal backlash after Grok's antisemitic posts. Workers demanded answers — and one said they would quit.

Elon Musk's AI venture, xAI, has lost one of its top engineering leaders to rival AI heavyweight OpenAI. Uday Ruddarraju, who played a pivotal role in building the core infrastructure of Musk's xAI, confirmed his exit recently.

This news comes after Elon Musk's xAI claimed that its ultimate goal is to develop a "maximally truth-seeking AI." xAI hasn't commented on the issue, making it impossible to establish whether Grok 4's responses based on Elon Musk's opinions are by design or it could be an error that the company is currently working on to resolve.

The tech billionaire unveiled its latest version, Grok 4, which he claims is "smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously."

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.