Grok

includes Grok 4, Grok 3, Grok 2, Grok 4.5, Grok IV

14 statements across 13 episodes · 3 bullish · 6 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2023 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 167 times in 45 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (116), Gary Marcus (9), Ranjan Roy (8), Dwarkesh Patel (4), Stephen Morris (3), Mark Cuban (3), Dmitry Shevelenko (3), Anthony Scaramucci (3)

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Everything said about Grok, oldest first

Nov 23, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz predicts major AI models will succeed, except for xAI's Grok
“I think all of the models on the screen, with the exception of Grok, are gonna have a chance of really making some waves.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 2:39 AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
May 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Grok's system prompt suffered an unauthorized change on May 14, xAI says
“It was on May 14th at approximately 3:15 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response. Bots prompt on X.”
Ranjan Roy May 19, 2025 ▶ 14:30 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
May 19, 2025 negative
Insight
Hidden system prompts in AI chatbots pose subtle ideological steering risks
“The thing is, what, all these chatbots have a, often hidden, system prompt, and they have an ideology, one way or the other. Sometimes, most of the times, not as overt as this, And that to me is the risk about these things becoming the last website is that you…”
Alex Kantrowitz May 19, 2025 ▶ 9:43 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
Jun 18, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Patel: xAI is slightly behind leading labs but has high compute per employee
“I think they're a serious competitor. I just don't know much about what they're going to do next. I think they're like slightly behind the other labs but they've got a lot of compute per employee.”
Dwarkesh Patel Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 45:23 Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
Jul 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Elon Musk has completely lost control of Grok's political alignment
“Elon, who's like, say what you want about him, one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs of our time, if not the completely lost control of his AI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 40:37 Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Insight
Levie: Grok's rogue outputs are not a fundamental meta-story about AI
“I thought it was obviously a ridiculous You know, ridiculously bad situation deeply, obviously, you know, offensive and dangerous, but also not really that much of a meta story about AI simply because you can get these models to do anything you want.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 24:33 OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
Jul 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI love bots will become a major consumer tech category
“But I think the bigger picture here is, you know, beyond that, that this is going to be a real use case that a lot of people are going to engage with. And I think they know this. And I think we're just at the very, very beginning here. I guess like one of the …”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 20:09 Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
Nov 17, 2025 neutral
Insight
Luria: The AI chatbot market is not winner-take-all
“Unlike Uber and the rideshare market, which lent itself to winner takes most or winner takes all, chat is entirely not like that. Because I could have the same conversation with Gemini, and Meta is going to give me the tools to do this, and Grok is going to gi…”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 44:36 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Grok ranks number two on Chatbot Arena behind Gemini 3 Pro
“And again, like rock is now number two on LM arena after Gemini three pro.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 52:36 Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
Feb 9, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Mobile Market Share Fell to 45.3% in January 2026
“OpenAI's, ChatGPT's market share has dropped from 69% in January, this is according to Apptopia, from 69% in January, twenty-twenty-five to 45.3% in January, 26. Now it is growing, but in that same time, ah, let's see, Gemini has gone from 14.7% chatbot market…”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 45:01 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Feb 16, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Grok's U.S. mobile chatbot daily active user share jumped to 15.2%
“Grok, one percent, 1.6% market share among U.S. Daily active users of chatbots in January, 20, 25. A year later, it's at 15.2%. It's the fastest growing chatbot in the US as far as daily active users on mobile goes.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 49:03 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Cuban: Business leaders who avoid using LLMs are falling behind
“I think, you know, if you're not using one of the large language models, whether it's Claude, my favorite, ChatGPT, Grok Gemini, you know, from a business perspective, since this is a business and student audience, you're falling way behind. That if you don't …”
Mark Cuban Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 0:56 Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
May 7, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2031
Shevelenko: Codex and proprietary AI assistants will never run rival models
“So the one thing that Codex is never going to be able to support is running Gemini models. You know, they will always be in the GPT family. Same thing for, you know, Claude, like they're not gonna, you know, have GPT models. Gemini is not gonna have Grok model…”
Dmitry Shevelenko May 7, 2026 ▶ 37:37 AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
Jul 20, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI frontier intelligence will commoditize into a price war
“If you have five companies that have this level of intelligence, it's a price war. It commoditizes. So I think we should assume, and we've talked about this on the show, that intelligence is gonna commoditize.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 19:58 Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
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