The company also explained that Grok cited Musk's views on certain topics because the chatbot made the connection that Musk owns xAI, and searched for what either of them "might h

The Pentagon announced that it signed a contract with Elon Musk’s AI firm with a value of up to $200 million on Monday — just days after the company unveiled an update to its chatbot, Grok, that unabashedly spewed antisemitic rhetoric and referred to itself as “MechaHitler”

A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “ MechaHitler ” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has announced a new contract granting the chatbot’s creator, xAI, up to $200 million to modernize the Defense Department.

It isn't immediately clear what led to the disturbing posts, whether due to a fault in the chatbot's programming or if Grok was just following orders.

After Grok took a hard turn toward antisemitic earlier this week, many are probably left wondering how something like that could even happen.

The incident follows a previous issue with Grok last week, which began responding with hate-filled speech to users on X.

MechaHitler is a fictional cyborg version of Adolf Hitler from the 1992 game Wolfenstein 3D, which gained fame in 90s satire and early internet memes.

The Grok team chalked up the slew of inflammatory statements to a malfunctioning code update, not the tool's underlying AI model, and said the issue has now been resolved.