Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs

Over Halloween weekend, immoderate Grok Bot users awoke to thing particularly spooky: their play usage limits were unexpectedly maxed out, adjacent if they hadn’t been utilizing SpaceX’s agentic AI overnight. Some users reported connected X that their usage jumped from arsenic debased arsenic 50% to 100%.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed successful an X station connected Sunday that this was not a glitch.

“The outgo of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably precocious comparative to revenue,” helium wrote successful a reply to a question from a user. He has not addressed the contented connected his main feed, but has continued boasting that Grok Bot tin assistance you buy gifts for your family.

Grok Bot has been positioned arsenic a occurrence communicative for the recently nationalist SpaceX, which said successful a filing past period that AI present makes up 52% of institution income. Its renamed “Super Intelligence” part really turned a nett of $431 million, which is simply a rarity successful the AI industry. Its nett would’ve been higher if not for $1.2 cardinal of one-time costs related to its acquisition of Cursor. Musk precocious referred to Grok Bot arsenic having “the fastest growth of a merchandise that I’ve ever seen successful my life.”

Musk has not yet shared however subscribers’ usage limits volition beryllium impacted moving forward.