Overview
- Musk posted a link on X to a Grok conversation where he uploaded a hidden attachment and asked the chatbot, “What is this?”
- Grok identified the image as a small brass or bronze statue of Lord Ganesha and detailed key iconographic features including the elephant head, four arms, lotus base, and mouse at the feet.
- The exchange quickly gained traction across Indian social media, with many users praising the AI’s culturally specific reading while some questioned Musk’s motive for posting it.
- Manoj Ladwa of the India Global Forum replied that the Ganesh murti had been presented to Musk by an IGF delegation during a recent visit, clarifying the likely origin of the statue.
- Coverage framed the moment as a showcase of xAI’s Grok integrated on X, emphasizing its image-understanding capability alongside other features promoted by the platform.