Musk says SpaceX will sometimes use rival AI models to power the Grok bot

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With that caveat, the only thing that can be stated with the available information is what the headline itself says: Elon Musk has reportedly said that SpaceX will at times use rivals' artificial intelligence models to run the Grok bot, rather than relying solely on models developed in-house. Grok is the AI assistant created by xAI, Musk's company, and is integrated into the social network X; that piece of context is public knowledge and does not come from the article itself.

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