Elon Musk has described the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development as "head-spinning," while pointing to an opportunity for Grok to gain an edge in real-world engineering by using training data from SpaceX and Tesla.
During a recent interview with China Media Group in California, he spoke about the rapid succession of AI software improvements and major announcements.
"AI is just so crazy. The rate of AI software improvements and major announcements is so rapid that it makes my head spin. Sometimes I'll, like, when I go to bed, there'll be some big AI breakthrough, and then when I wake up, there's an AI breakthrough, and by the time it gets to lunch, there's another AI breakthrough," he said.
Turning to his own efforts in AI, Musk said the company has rolled out its newest AI model, Grok 4.7, which was trained using real engineering data from SpaceX. He said such data could help distinguish Grok from other AI models in tackling practical engineering tasks.
"I think we've got a real opportunity with the SpaceX training data and maybe with the Tesla training data to make AI extremely capable in real-world engineering. So what Anthropic did extremely well was make AI excellent at software engineering. But no one has yet made AI excellent at real-world engineering, and I think that's an opportunity for Grok, using the training data from SpaceX and Tesla, to be excellent at real-world engineering," he said.
Elon Musk says AI progress makes his head "spin," sets sights on real-world engineering breakthrough
