Elon Musk has hit back at a report which claimed that the tech billionaire has told the Tesla staff to switch to Grok 4.5, a model he admits is worse. He has clarified that he does not force his employees to use his own software blindly if a competitor's product performs better.

Elon Musk directs Tesla employees to adopt Grok 4.5 for AI tasks, caps third-party tool spending at $200 per week, and plans vehicle integration by fall

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to Grok 4.5, an AI model he admits is worse than rivals and ranks below OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on benchmarks.