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Elon Musk
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Musk directs Tesla to adopt Grok, a model he admits is inferior
Elon Musk instructed Tesla staff to switch to the AI model Grok 4.5, developed by xAI now folded into SpaceX. Musk acknowledges Grok is inferior to competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI but highlights its lower cost per task, about $0.13 versus $1.57 for Claude Fable 5. Tesla set a $200 weekly AI spending cap excluding Grok, encouraging its adoption. Grok 4.5 ranks ninth overall on a multi-domain leaderboard with a score of 76.3 but has the lowest coding score (68.6) and faced training data issues that inflated initial results.
- Grok 4.5 costs $0.13 per task, much less than Claude Fable 5’s $1.57
- Grok 4.5 has the lowest coding score on the leaderboard at 68.6
🔎 Why it matters: The Grok 4.5 version used at Tesla is cheaper but less capable than OpenAI and Anthropic models.
📈 Upside: Reduces Tesla’s AI usage costs with a more affordable in-house model.
📉 Risk: Mandating Grok use may reduce productivity due to its lower technical performance.
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