The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

Last week, billionaire Elon Musk revelaed his AI startup's "companions," an unlikely pair of characters, including a hypersexualized goth anime girl, dubbed Ani, and an extremely vulgar red panda, named Bad Rudi.

His big concern is massive budget deficits, and he pledges to clean up government fraud, waste and abuse and sweep away bureaucratic red tape — applying the know-how of a systems engineer to tame the federal behemoth.

A dynamic is emerging among Elon Musk’s Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, fueling talk of consolidation. That isn’t necessarily a problem for Tesla shareholders.

E lon Musk took aim at House Speaker Mike Johnson after reports surfaced that Johnson shut down the House until September to block a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething pains, or are its failures a symptom of a fundamentally unworkable design that will never be fixed?

Tesla opened the doors on its “retro-futuristic” drive-in diner in Hollywood, California on Monday after several years in development.