Like Grok flounders, SpaceX bets on the future by beating Big Tech to AI

Corporate use Claude of Anthropic and Google Gemini AI brands have also risen in the past year, according to market research firm Enterprise Technology Research. The company’s survey of 500 people, which was also analyzed by The Wall Street Journal, showed that the use of Claude among the companies surveyed jumped from 21 percent to 48 percent between 2025 and 2026.

Grok’s industrial use also saw a small bump, rising from 4 percent to 7 percent. “We have launched Grok Business, Grok Enterprise, Grok API, and xAI Gov, products that we believe will be attractive to businesses and governments, and we anticipate the opportunity to acquire new customers,” SpaceX wrote in its S-1 filing.

However, Reuters reported that “xAI’s Grok chatbot has been successful with one of the world’s largest customers – the US government.” A Reuters analysis of AI documents from government agencies in 2025 showed only three instances of people using xAI or Grok out of more than 400 publicly disclosed examples of AI use by government.

Grok’s rise in popularity coincided with a change in January 2026 that allowed Grok users to create millions of pornographic images of women and children using real images. almost undressed people—a situation that existed for several weeks before developers reported the situation. AI is naked scandal initiated legal proceedings against xAI and urged the European Union to disable audifing software.

Grok also includes features such as “Spicy” and “Unhinged” modes. SpaceX’s financial disclosures stated that these materials present “a growing number of risks, including harm to reputation, publication of material that may be false or misleading, inappropriate or offensive images, infringing intellectual property, or that may be viewed as oppressive, harmful, harassing, abusive, or discriminatory.”

According to the company, SpaceX admitted that this leaves the company “at risk of surveillance, enforcement, lawsuits, or claims of harm, as well as reputational damage, disagreements with users or advertisers, or our inability to distribute or monetize our products in other places or through our partners.”