Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to 'unsustainably high' costs

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Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to 'unsustainably high' costs

Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."

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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

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Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to 'unsustainably high' costs

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