Friday, September 26, 2025

Elon Musk Just Sold Grok to U.S. Government for 42 Cents

The U.S. government just inked a deal to put Elon Musk's Grok AI inside federal agencies for 42 cents per agency"a bargain that the government called "unique" and could reset Musk's rocky relationship with Trump and scramble the fight over which models dominate Washington.

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"Musk-Trump relationship

The deal could be a sign that the turbulent Musk-Trump relationship is in a period of thawing. After breaking with Trump in June over tariffs and spending"even calling for his impeachment"Musk has become one of the president's most vocal critics. However, on Sunday, the two were spotted side by side at Charlie Kirk's memorial in Arizona, shaking hands and chatting for the first time since their public split.

Now Musk is praising Trump's leadership in official press releases, saying xAI looks forward to "rapidly deploying AI throughout the government."

Whether this is a fragile truce or a genuine thaw, the timing is striking: Musk is still struggling to keep pace with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in the private market, but inside Washington, he just secured a coveted stamp of approval."

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Personally, I trust FElon not to monkey around with info he gathers this way, to oh, say, jam his competitors for starters.

I just hope that MechHitler as Grok has called itself, gets along well with Orange Adolph.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-26 02:20 PM

Musk's AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot (July 2025)
www.theguardian.com

... Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted "inappropriate" posts on X after the company's chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries. ...

In other posts it referred to itself as "MechaHitler".

"The white man stands for innovation, grit and not bending to PC nonsense," Grok said in a subsequent post. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-26 02:38 PM

@#2

Supposedly, Grok has been "fixed" to prevent such responses ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-26 02:40 PM

Did Grok do a mind-meld with fElon the Pedo?

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-26 03:28 PM

Of course, he's selling it cheap.

It's not the contract money that's lucrative.

It's the unregulated access to all the data that's going to make him rich and powerful.

He likely would have given it to them for free for that access but had to charge something.

So, he chose the answer to life, the universe and everything as the charge.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-26 05:43 PM

Elon didn't sell them Grok.

Elon licensed Grok for their use...

And now Grok will have access to anything the Feds put into it and access to any database hooked up to it.

Huge win for Musk.

What could go wrong?

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-26 06:15 PM

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