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Musk throttles Grok over unsustainably high costs

Original: Musk is throttling Grok because its cost is 'unsustainably high'

Elon Musk says xAI is throttling usage of its Grok chatbot because operating costs are, in his words, unsustainably high. The admission limits how much users can access the AI assistant, sparking debate about whether competing free AI services are economically viable and what it signals about the true cost of running frontier models at scale.

Why now: The statement reveals the steep computing costs behind popular AI chatbots, a live concern across the tech industry.

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