Grok struggles to gain traction in US government
reuters reports xai's grok appeared in only 3 of over 400 government ai use records, compared to over 230 for openai.
an analysis of federal procurement data reveals xai's grok is nearly absent from government ai usage, appearing in only three instances among 400 records, while openai appears in over 230. government staffers and a pentagon source dismissed the model as inferior, preferring rivals from anthropic, openai, and google. despite this performance, spacex's ipo filing positions grok as central to a $28.5 trillion enterprise ai market opportunity. xai also faces reputational issues after musk admitted to using openai's outputs to train grok, a controversial practice known as distillation.