--- title: "Elon Musk Says a Second Grok AI Will Hit the Internet Next Month" description: "Elon Musk is now claiming that the update to Grok, his dad joke-spewing AI chatbot, is going to drop next month." date: "2024-07-02" modified: "2024-07-02" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-announces-grok-2" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "grok" - "llms" - "xai" --- # Elon Musk Says a Second Grok AI Will Hit the Internet Next Month ![Elon Musk is now claiming that the update to Grok, his dad joke-spewing AI chatbot, is going to drop next month.]() *\Image: Richard Bord / WireImage via Getty / Futurism\* Elon Musk is now claiming that the update to Grok, his [dad joke-spewing]() AI chatbot, is going to drop next month — but as with all of the multi-hyphenate's [big promises](), we'll believe it when we see it. This latest claim came with little prompting after Musk reply-guy'd an account called "@BasedJeffBezos," which [posted a video from a podcast interview]() about AI models "training on each other's data is like a human centipede effect." "Sadly quite true," the [owner of X-formerly-Twitter responded](). "It takes a lot of work to purge \[large language models\] from the Internet training data. Grok 2, which comes out in August, will be a giant improvement in this regard." To be fair, Musk isn't wrong to point out that large language models (LLMs) often [hoover up each others' training data]() like so many [hungry ghosts](), a fact well-known to anyone who's read more than two articles about [the way LLMs work]() and the [conundrums facing their future](). Where things get sticky, of course, is his claim that the second iteration of Grok, which was launched last fall, is somehow going to be a "giant improvement" on other chatbots when heretofore, we've heard [literally nothing about the training data]() for either version one or two. Since its [beta launch last November](), the purportedly "[anti-woke]()" chatbot has [proven]() [time and again]() to be [gimmicky and goofy](), [spewing vulgarities]() like a middle schooler who just mustered up the courage to utter curse words aloud and with all the lack of inspiration or uniqueness such a vibe denotes. Not long after its launch, [Grok was even caught plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT](), which is the exact thing Musk decried as "sadly quite true" in his apropos-to-nothing announcement of its successor. In the ensuing eight-ish months, [Grok has been lobotomized](), [partially updated](), and ultimately mostly forgotten even as its founder [raised $6 billion]() to fund his AI efforts — but never once has there been any indication that Musk and his team at xAI had achieved some breakthrough that could constitute the sort of "giant improvement" on current LLM data training practices. What's more, after @BasedJeffBezos [quote-tweeted its fortuitous Musk response]() and claimed, without any evidence, that Grok 2 will achieve "based" artificial general intelligence (AGI), the [X owner replied yet again]() to say that a *third* version will be up and running by years end thanks to the [expensive AI chips]() he's purchased for the purpose. "Grok 3 end of year after training on 100k \[Nvidia H100 chips\] should be really something special," Musk posted. And yeah, it probably will be — but not necessarily in the way the bombastic billionaire is suggesting. **More on Grok:** [*AI Researcher Elon Musk Poached From OpenAI Returns to OpenAI*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()