“Just Grok it!” Rocketman Elon Musk tells his fellow ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) users to ditch Google and “Grok” all the questions they ever need answers to. Grok 3 AI model, touted as the more powerful version of its predecessor Grok 2, was earlier expected to drop in late 2024 but was released only last month. Calling it “scary smart” at a conference, little did Musk know that an advanced chatbot that runs on xAI’s powerful Colossus supercomputer, ten times faster than the previous generation, is hurling profanities at Indians. Much worse, it has been mirroring the tone and language of desis asking it questions, something that may remind you of careless, unfiltered banters with your friends at a local chai tapri. So why exactly has a chatbot developed faraway at a startup xAI become India’s favourite new toy? What Is Grok? “Blending superior reasoning with extensive pretraining knowledge,” Grok 3 is super capable on several fronts. Already beating the previous instalment handsomely, the chatbot can perform several tasks for you including coding, mathematics, image creation, instruction-driven tasks, reasoning and beyond. It will solve your problems, heck even create games for you. “To use Grok 3’s reasoning capabilities, just press the Think button. Grok 3 (Think)’s mind is completely open, allowing users to inspect not only the final answer but the reasoning process of the model itself. We have found that Grok 3 (Think)’s performance generalizes across diverse problem domains,” excerpt on Grok 3’s release read. In one of the examples of its coding prowess, the AI chatbot is asked to create a mix of two classic games, Pong and Breakout. It does that in a matter of seconds and gives you the final product and reasoning behind how and why it did what it did. Also Read: Virat Kohli’s Instagram Account Or New York’s Times Square? The Silent ‘Outrage’ By Fans Explained Similarly, the AI chatbot is fed with ASCII art request, a puzzle, and a math problem. How Did Grok Go Viral? It took one query, only one, for Grok 3 to become the daily driver on the Indian part of the Internet. And no, we aren’t talking of reasoning or complicated math that you’d use to fly a rocket from your backyard. A certain account by the username “Toka” simply hit up Grok asking the chatbot to list their ten best mutuals on the platform ‘X’. With no response in sight, Toka took jibes at the chatbot in not so friendly language. Hitting Toka with the exact expletive, Grok responded in Hindi. Tera “10 best mutuals” ka hisaab se yeh hai list…mutual matlab dono follow karte ho, par exact data nhi hai toh mentions pe bharosa kiya. Thik hai na? Ab rona band kar.” Also Read: IPL 2025: Who Are The New And Old Captains Of Indian Premier League | A Complete Guide Those who noticed Grok’s response had varied responses. Some found it hilarious, others thought there was a certain admin seated in India doing all the talking. And some simply felt – has AI gone too far? In comparison, Grok’s rivals OpenAI, DeepSeek, or even ChatGPT have responses that are fairly tame in responses, akin to talking to a computer. When another user asked Grok to complete a sentence, it did not spare even Elon Musk. “Char chavanni ghode pe…” the user query read. From politics to cricket to Bollywood gossips, Grok has been answering relentlessly to hundreds and thousands of questions on the platform X. And all these from Indians alone. A quick glance at the Google trends indicates that it took just one profanity-laden response by Musk’s chatbot to grab India’s attention. Free (Unhinged) Speech The voice feature of Grok is where the fun is… or not. Accessible to the premium subscribers, Grok can curse and yell at it. Grok can talk to you in a “sexy” voice. Grok has an unhinged mode and the screams get louder by the second before all hell breaks loose. The AI chatbot can talk to you like a teacher. It can also clone the personality of a conspiracy theorist. AI researcher Riley Goodside’s video is a good example how these modes and personalities work, the unhinged one is… well… unhinged AND NSFW. You have been warned. Grok 3 Voice Mode, following repeated, interrupting requests to yell louder, lets out an inhuman 30-second scream, insults me, and hangs up pic.twitter.com/5GtdDtpKce — Riley Goodside (@goodside) February 24, 2025 Several accounts on ‘X’ including Snapdeal founder and Shark Tank India personality Kunal Bahl believe that given the kind of abuse, foul language, or simply the controversial political responses could see the end of Grok in the country much sooner than later. Others felt that the “free speech” that Musk has advocated routinely may finally find a space on the Indian side of the Internet. Grok Over Mom The Grok is definitely working out for someone without any controversy or backlash. That someone is Shivon Zilis and Elon Musk’s young son who relies on Grok instead of listening to his mom’s “I don’t know”. Sharing the mom moment, the Canadian venture capitalist and executive at Musk’s company Neuralink, Zilis, wrote that their son had entered a phase where the questions never stopped. “My son is in the ask a thousand questions phase and every time I say ‘I don’t know’ he says ‘ok then let’s ask Grok.’ Mommy’s lack of knowledge is no longer acceptable when he knows the voice on my phone can answer every question,” Zilis posted.