{"id":3694,"date":"2025-07-15T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/pentagon-elon-musk-xai-grok\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:21:23","slug":"pentagon-elon-musk-xai-grok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/pentagon-elon-musk-xai-grok\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon Is Pumping $200 Million Into Elon Musk’s AI That Just Had a Nazi Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has announced<\/a> a nearly $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense for developing AI tools for the military.<\/p>\n

The news comes a week after xAI’s foul-mouthed Grok chatbot had a full-blown Nazi meltdown<\/a>, referring to itself as “MechaHitler” and making outrageously bigoted claims about Black and Jewish people.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0wordy statement<\/a> that was thin on details, the DoD’s chief digital and AI officer, Doug Matty, lauded the partnership as an important step forward for the US military.<\/p>\n

“Leveraging commercially available solutions into an integrated capabilities approach will accelerate the use of advanced AI as part of our joint mission-essential tasks in our warfighting domain as well as intelligence, business and enterprise information systems,” Matty said.<\/p>\n

The announcement highlights how cozy Musk’s relationship with the government has become, despite his major falling out<\/a> with president Donald Trump. In May, Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency was heavily criticized<\/a> for pushing the use of its Grok chatbot at the Department of Homeland Security without the required sign-offs, yet another example of the billionaire’s glaring conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n

Its massive DoD contract could xAI a much-needed influx of cash. The startup has been burning through an astonishing $1 billion per month<\/a>, forcing a seemingly desperate Musk to siphon off funds<\/a> from his other businesses to keep it afloat.<\/p>\n

Apart from the DoD deal, xAI also announced a “Grok for Government” feature, designed to capture the Trump administration’s considerable appetite for adopting AI.<\/p>\n

It also conveniently aligns with the administration’s “anti-woke” agenda. Musk has been trying to push Grok<\/a> to allegedly be “maximally truth seeking” in a purported effort to root out its “woke” tendencies, such as pointing out accurate reporting<\/a> by trustworthy news sources.<\/p>\n

Instead, Musk has pushed the chatbot to echo his personal, right-wing extremist beliefs to a near-comical degree. Over the weekend, it emerged <\/a>that Grok<\/a> was searching Twitter and the web for Musk’s personal views before making up its mind.<\/p>\n

In other words, the US military is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a chatbot that isn’t just happily furthering unhinged conspiracy theories; it’s started to act like Musk’s own AI shadow, making it a highly questionable choice for the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

More on Grok:<\/strong> Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post The Pentagon Is Pumping $200 Million Into Elon Musk’s AI That Just Had a Nazi Meltdown<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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