Musk Throttles Grok Bot Limits as AI Drives 52% of SpaceX Income
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Updated · TechCrunch · Nov 2
Musk Throttles Grok Bot Limits as AI Drives 52% of SpaceX Income
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Nov 2
Summary
Halloween weekend users saw Grok Bot weekly quotas jump from about 50% used to 100% overnight, and Elon Musk said the caps were tightened deliberately rather than triggered by a glitch.
Musk said serving Grok Bot had become "unsustainably high" in cost relative to revenue, but he has not said how subscriber limits will be set going forward.
SpaceX has cast Grok Bot as a flagship AI product since going public, saying last month that AI contributes 52% of company income.
Its Super Intelligence division posted a $431 million profit, though that would have been higher without $1.2 billion in one-time costs tied to the Cursor acquisition.