In the race to develop Silicon Valley ‘s dominant large language model, Grok , the chatbot from Elon Musk ‘s xAI, remains the least predictable. A month after the company unveiled Grok 4 — you may remember that the previous version had to be reined in after it started spouting antisemitic rhetoric and identifying as “ MechaHitler ” — it was briefly suspended on Monday from Musk’s social platform, X.
As with any suspended account, a notice appeared on @grok’s blank profile: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.” But no further information was immediately available. The ban lasted roughly 15 minutes, after which @grok was reinstated without a blue verification checkmark. However, that soon reappeared as well.
X users were left to speculate about how a prized Musk produc