Tesla has integrated the Grok AI chatbot into newly delivered cars and select older models that meet specific technical requirements.

Billionaire Elon Musk announced that Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot, will be available in Tesla vehicles starting next week "at the latest."

It’s unclear whether the new partnership will allow xAI to use vehicle data to train its large language models.

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Tesla has launched a new software update for its vehicles that includes the anticipated integration of Grok, but it

But it is important to consider the way data is shared now after installing "Grok" in Tesla cars. In its disclosures, Tesla stated that drivers' conversations with "Grok" would be securely processed by "xAI", in line with "xAI" privacy policy, indicating that the conversations will be anonymized and not linked to any specific car.

xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

Musk's announcement comes hours after xAI debuted its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4. The 54-year-old discussed the recent innovation during a nearly hour-long livestream shared on xAI's X page, during which he did not mention the chatbot's integration into Tesla vehicles.

Grok AI will be available in Tesla vehicles next week "at the latest", the EV maker's CEO, Elon Musk, said in a post on X on Thursday.

Tesla started rolling out the 2025.26 software update with Grok personal assistant integration, however, it fell short on offering Grok-powered voice commands