Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced a drastic direction for his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, revealing plans to retrain the system using what he calls cleaner and more accurate versions of human knowledge.
The initiative, led by his AI company Xai, is part of Mask's broader ambitions, comparable to major AI platforms such as ChatGpt, which he has consistently criticised for ideological prejudice.
In a series of posts shared on social media platform X, Musk said future versions of the chatbot named Grok 3.5 or potential Grok 4 will have “advanced reasoning” and will be responsible for revising the global knowledge base. “We use Grok 3.5, which has advanced reasoning (maybe we should call it 4), to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deletion of errors,” he writes.
The entrepreneur, who has long voiced concerns about what he calls the “mindvirus” of ideological infecting current AI systems, described the move as a step towards creating less constrained, objective artificial intelligence. He encouraged users to provide what is called “schizophrenia facts.” This is politically wrong, but in his view, there is evidence to include it in Grok's training data based on the truth.
In other news, Xai attacked a key partnership agreement with messaging giant Telegram last month. As part of the deal, Xai will invest $300 million to integrate Grok into the Telegram Ecosystem over the next year. The arrangement, which includes both cash and stock components, also features a revenue sharing model that receives 50% of all subscription revenue generated through GROK on the platform.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov says the integration is designed to expand Grok's reach into a vast user base of messaging apps, and is currently estimated to exceed 1 billion worldwide. Durov also sought to address potential privacy concerns and has assured users that Grok only has access to content that is explicitly shared during the interaction.
