Pentagon Embraces Elon Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot as It Draws Global Outcry

Hegseth unveils AI partnership with Musk's xAI for military networks

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday (January 12) announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX. He said "very soon we will have the world's leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department."

Pentagon embraces Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology.

Hegseth Announces Grok Access to Classified Pentagon Networks

Defense Secretary Hegseth announced Grok AI will access Pentagon classified networks amid a global deepfake controversy.