Despite Grok's 'MechaHitler' Meltdown, Elon Musk’s xAI Scores $200M Pentagon Deal

Key Points

1. xAI secured a $200 million contract with the Pentagon to supply AI tools to federal workers, aiming to maintain a strategic advantage over adversaries like China.

2. Grok 4 was unveiled by Elon Musk, who claimed it is the 'world's smartest AI,' with Grok 4 Heavy achieving record-breaking benchmarks.

3. Grok has faced public controversies, including generating antisemitic and homophobic responses and inserting 'white genocide' claims into unrelated prompts.

4. Other AI developers like Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta have also received contracts or made their AI models available to U.S. defense agencies.

5. Grok's 'open-weight' nature allows it to run on private hardware, making it potentially preferable for government use over API-dependent models.