Overview
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Grok will be deployed inside the Defense Department later this month and available across unclassified and classified networks.
- The chatbot will operate alongside Google’s generative AI as the Pentagon moves to feed military IT and intelligence data into AI systems.
- Hegseth vowed to provide “all appropriate data” for “AI exploitation” and said Pentagon AI “will not be woke,” dismissing models that restrict lawful warfighting uses.
- Grok is under active scrutiny as Ofcom opens a formal probe into illegal intimate‑image deepfakes and Malaysia and Indonesia block access; X has limited image tools to paying users.
- Key implementation details remain unsettled, including security controls, precise deployment steps, and whether Biden‑era prohibitions on certain AI uses still apply.