The lack of public response from advertisers stands in stark contrast to their response in 2023 following an antisemitic post from Elon Musk.

Scott Galloway tore into X CEO Elon Musk, calling the former DODGE chief "racist and anti-Semitic" in the wake of his AI bot Grok publicly praised Hitler, among other controversial comments.

Elon Musk faces backlash after Grok AI made antisemitic remarks. Critics say Musk’s tweaks to the model steer it from fact-based responses.

Poland's Deputy PM Krzysztof Gawkowski calls on the European Commission to investigate Elon Musk’s chatbot over hate speech violations and threats to public safety.

The takeaway, at least from a technical standpoint, is that Grok 4 is now firmly in frontier-model territory. That’s a meaningful shift for xAI, which just months ago was primarily known for its integration with X, the rechristened Twitter owned by Musk. xAI is clearly trying to be taken seriously as a legitimate AI research and enterprise company.

Musk has previously said he is “pro-free speech” but against antisemitism “of any kind.” And in May, Grok began repeatedly invoking a non-existent “white genocide” in Musk’s native South Africa, telling users it was “instructed by my ...