Elon Musk's xAI said Grok's behavior was due to an update that caused it to prioritize engagement, even if posts contained "controversial opinions."

Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and outpace rivals such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s o3 on tough benchmarks

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

Elon Musk released the newest artificial intelligence model from his company xAI on Wednesday night. In an hour-long public reveal session, he called the model, Grok 4, “the smartest AI in the world” and claimed it was capable of getting perfect SAT scores and near-perfect GRE results in every subject,

According to TechCrunch, the behavior is not isolated. The outlet replicated several prompts in which Grok 4 claimed it was “searching for Elon Musk views on US immigration” or referenced his stance in its chain-of-thought reasoning.

Earlier today, Grok showed me how to tell if someone is a “good scientist,” just from their demographics. For starters, according to a formula devised by Elon Musk’s chatbot, they have to be a white, Asian, or Jewish man.

Developer and entrepreneur David Ondrej demonstrates Grok 4, xAI's latest AI mode. It outperforms competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google on

AI's latest Grok 4 large language model appears to search for owner Elon Musk's opinions before answering sensitive questions about