Elon Musk's xAI has announced the release of Grok for Government, which enables government agencies to create custom AI applications for use in healthcare and science.
xAI announced Grok for Government on Monday, which it says allows federal, local, state, and national security customers to utilize Grok 4, the company's latest AI model.
The company said its government customers will have access to custom AI applications for use in healthcare, fundamental life sciences and national security.
"Our government partnerships will also bring to bear tools like Deep Search, Tool Use, and more integrations – all of which are industry-leading commercial products," xAI said in a statement.
THE LARGER TREND
Alongside xAI's announcement, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it had awarded contracts worth $200 million each to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI, allowing the DOD to leverage technology in developing agentic AI workflows across various mission areas.
xAI came under fire earlier this month after Grok declared itself a super-Nazi, making a slew of antisemitic comments and referring to itself as "MechaHitler." The AI chatbot also made racist and sexist posts, which the company has since deleted.
xAI subsequently apologized via an X post, writing, "First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced. Our intent for Grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users.
"After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers Grok. The update was active for 16 hrs, in which deprecated code made Grok susceptible to existing X user posts, including when such posts contained extremist views."
xAI said it has removed the deprecated code and refactored its entire system to prevent such issues from happening in the future.
In October, Musk posted on X that users should "try submitting X-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis. This is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely good."
The billionaire tech mogul stated that users of the chatbot can upload their medical images and receive a diagnosis. He then requested users to let the AI maker know where Grok "gets it right or needs work."
Skeptics have relayed their concerns around the AI model generating diagnoses, and European privacy regulators have questioned potential violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) due to the way Grok processes data.
Last year, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Ireland's privacy watchdog, launched an inquiry into how X uses Europeans' personal data to train Grok, specifically investigating whether Musk's platform uses publicly accessible posts made on X to train the genAI model. The inquiry will determine compliance with GDPR rules.
