Musk Loses The AI Race
For several months, Elon Musk’s xAI seemed to be falling behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s Gemini, and the tier of AI companies just below them. Industry experts have recently reported that Musk’s Grok is well behind Claude, GPT, and Gemini in adoption. One metric people use is Apple App Store downloads. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are among the top 25. Grok isn’t on the list at all.
In the enterprise software business, xAI is rarely, if ever, listed as a winner in the race to do business with huge enterprises. Even SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) CEO Elon Musk has admitted that, while Grok has not lost the race, it is running well behind. He recently said, “SpaceXAI’s Grok Has Fallen Behind Competitors.” He added, “I’m not used to losing.”


