Over Halloween weekend, some Grok Bot users awoke to something especially spooky: their weekly usage limits were unexpectedly maxed out, even if they hadn’t been using SpaceX’s agentic AI overnight. Some users reported on X that their usage jumped from as low as 50% to 100%. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed in an X post on Sunday that this was not a glitch.
He has not addressed the issue on his main feed, but has continued boasting that Grok Bot can help you buy gifts for your family. Grok Bot has been positioned as a success story for the newly public SpaceX, which said in a filing last month that AI now makes up 52% of company income. Its renamed “Super Intelligence” division actually turned a profit of $431 million, which is a rarity in the AI industry.
Its profit would’ve been higher if not for $1.2 billion of one-time costs related to its acquisition of Cursor. Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having “the fastest growth of a product that I’ve ever seen in my life.” Musk has not yet shared how subscribers’ usage limits will be impacted moving forward.
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