Elon Musk’s xAI team has unveiled its forthcoming plans after the successful launch of Grok 4, with Musk making bold statements about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). During a recent livestream on X, the xAI team confirmed that Grok 4, the company’s first public release, is based on its sixth foundational model. They also announced that the seventh version is under development and anticipated to be ready within weeks, with enhancements primarily addressing visual perception weaknesses.
This update is particularly significant considering Musk’s larger vision. During the livestream, Musk stated that Grok would interact with the physical world through Tesla’s Optimus robot. Musk, the head of Tesla, an electric vehicle and robotics company, further revealed that Grok would be incorporated into Tesla cars as early as next week, according to a post on X.
Musk believes that this integration will enable Grok to validate its theories in the real world, a strategy that implies the AI chatbot may develop beyond text-based output to real-world scientific experimentation.
Musk also expressed his expectation that Grok would “unearth new, genuinely useful technologies no later than next year, possibly even by the end of the current year.” He further stated: “It might uncover new physics by next year. And within two years, almost certainly.”
Musk is known for his ambitious predictions about AI. He recently stated that xAI would retrain Grok using a new knowledge base devoid of “garbage” and “unverified data”, even suggesting that the AI could potentially reinterpret history.
During the livestream, Musk also predicted that AI would lead to “an economy that is thousands, or maybe millions, of times larger than our present economy”, even referencing the Kardashev civilization classification scale.
The xAI team also hinted at a new AI programming model, which is reportedly “fast and intelligent” and is expected to be launched in the coming weeks. This announcement comes on the heels of xAI securing $10 billion in additional capital earlier this month as it continues its challenge to OpenAI, escalating the competition to control the AI arena. Earlier in May, the company also tentatively agreed to incorporate its AI chatbot Grok across Telegram in a deal worth $300 million.
