During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, a former Pentagon employee says.

In April, xAI asked workers to record their facial expressions as part of efforts to train Grok to understand human emotions, according to a report from Business Insider. During the process, xAI reportedly had employees sign a form that gives the company access to their “likeness” for training and “inclusion in and promotion of commercial products and services.

Elon Musk’s xAI said Tuesday, July 22, it planned to power on its second Memphis data center, Colossus 2 in Whitehaven.

The second of xAI's massive supercomputers to be constructed in Shelby County will have similar power systems to the first, the tech company announced Tuesday.

AI employees were asked to record facial expressions to train Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, raising internal privacy concerns.

Dozens of xAI employees expressed concerns—and many objected—when asked to record videos of their facial expressions to help "give Grok a face," Business Insider reported. BI reviewed internal documents and Slack messages, finding that the so-called project "Skippy" was designed to help Grok learn what a face is and "interpret human emotions."

Officials from the company posted an update to x, formerly Twitter, saying Tesla Megapacks will provide power for Shelby County residents during peak demand hours.

AI has acquired the site of a former Duke Energy power plant in Mississippi, continuing the expansion of power infrastructure near its Memphis data centers.