In December 2025, a few month earlier than the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret assembly with Elon Musk, Time journal reviews. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role within the Trump administration on the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
Throughout this assembly, Trump “spent hours” speaking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, together with asking how Venezuelans would reply to the seize of their president, a supply informed Time. Simply a few months earlier, in September, Trump started ordering U.S. army strikes towards Venezuelan boats that Trump alleged had been concerned in drug trafficking.
Folks had apparently been turning to Grok asking in regards to the boat strikes and political local weather in Venezuela, as The Atlantic reported on the time. So Grok informed Trump that Maduro was a “deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would possible rejoice his downfall,” Time reported.
When such celebrations indeed happened after the U.S. invaded on January 3, Trump apparently “got here away pondering Grok was ingenious,” that supply informed Time.
So maybe it ought to come as no shock that in June of this 12 months, the Pentagon’s head of AI mentioned that the army used Gov Grok to deploy and strike targets through the Iran Conflict.
Whereas Grok isn’t the one AI mannequin serving the DoD (OpenAI additionally has an agreement and Anthropic has been in a back-and-forth over how its fashions can be utilized for army intelligence and in modern warfare), Grok might turn out to be a fair greater favourite underneath this administration. Earlier this week, the Pentagon introduced that Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey have been tapped to co-lead a research about how superior expertise is, and may be, utilized in battlefields.