Tech entrepreneur, CEO of Tesla and xAI, Elon Musk, has introduced an essential upcoming replace of xAI’s Grok AI chatbot. Nevertheless, whereas doing so, he cited his personal in style tweet printed 4 years in the past, in 2021.
Again then, this tweet turned a kind of Twitter posts that some analysts wished to sue Musk for, alleging that he was engaged in manipulating monetary markets.
“Stonks” tweet introduced again by Grok Think about; Bitcoin
In his tweet, Musk introduced a soon-to-launch improve when Grok will be capable to say phrases in a human voice. He printed a 6-second video (the utmost Grok Think about can achieve this far) depicting the “Stonks” meme character. It is a in style Web determine that usually depicts somebody making poor monetary selections or misinterpreting market developments. This video-making characteristic is the newest innovation that has been rolled out by the xAI staff and it combines textual content, picture, and video-generating options in a single app.
Grok will be capable to say phrases quickly pic.twitter.com/14u79u4opu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 15, 2025
The bald determine stands confidently in entrance of a surging inventory market chart, speaking with none sound. Again in 2021, Musk posted a number of tweets, amongst them had been “Stonks!” and “Gamestonk”. The primary one was associated to the inventory market (a slang time period for shares), the second to the shares of a specific firm – Gamestop, which soared after Musk talked about them in his tweet. Platforms had been pressured to droop buying and selling GME. Earlier than that, he added Bitcoin to his bio part on Twitter, pushing the BTC worth method upward: a whopping 20% in a single day.
SEC loses Tesla case to Musk
In the identical yr, a bunch of apprehensive buyers alleged that Musk was manipulating markets by simply tweeting about sure firms’ shares or BTC. Again then, the tech mogul was in the course of a lawsuit filed in opposition to him by the SEC after his 2018 tweet about Tesla shares: “Am contemplating taking Tesla personal at $420. Funding secured.”
Finally, the Securities and Change Fee misplaced the case.
