US military used Elon Musk’s Grok AI in aerial assaults on Iran: Pentagon

The United States military employed a variant of Elon Musk's Grok artificial intelligence to coordinate rapid-strike offensives during its latest war of aggression waged jointly by the Israeli regime against Iran, a senior Pentagon official has disclosed in a court declaration.

Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer for the Pentagon, stated in a sworn declaration submitted on Monday in a federal case in Southern Mississippi that "MSS (Maven Smart Systems) frontier workflows enabled US forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during (the so-called) Operation Epic Fury." 

He described this accomplishment as evidence of the "significantly enhanced operational efficiency" afforded by the Grok Gov model.

Maven Smart System is an AI-driven command and data analysis platform created by the Pentagon in collaboration with the software company Palantir.

Stanley provided this statement in the context of a federal case concerning an environmental lawsuit aimed at halting the operation of gas-fired turbines that power xAI’s Colossus 2 data center. He contended that any interruption to this facility would pose a direct threat to national security interests, as the military depends on the supercomputer for training and enhancing its AI capabilities.

He likened the significance of large data centers to that of traditional ammunition manufacturing, asserting, "The essential capacity to deploy data facilities at a massive scale is as fundamental to our contemporary defense strategy as conventional munitions production."

He noted that users on a Pentagon network generate approximately 1.5 billion words daily for logistics management, predictive analytics, and military planning.

The Pentagon's dependence on xAI comes after the termination of its collaboration with competitor Anthropic, which declined to allow its Claude AI model to be utilized for fully automated strikes or domestic mass surveillance.

In March, the Washington Post daily newspaper reported that the Pentagon had utilized both the Claude model and the Maven Smart System in planning attacks on Iran.

The report indicated that the Maven system employed advanced AI technology to pinpoint potential targets in Iran.

Musk’s Grok of xAI signs deal with Pentagon, becomes military's new partner in classified systems

Elon Musk’s xAI has inked a deal with the Pentagon to deploy its Grok model inside top-secret military systems.

The system was reportedly utilized in a military operation this January aimed at capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Grok has faced controversy in the past, notably last year when the Grok chatbot made favorable comments about Hitler, and subsequently when it permitted users to modify images of people, including minors, to depict them in provocative attire or sexually suggestive scenarios.

On February 28, following the assassination of Iran's late Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and several high-ranking military commanders, the United States and Israel initiated a large-scale and unprovoked war of aggression against Iran.

In response, Iranian Armed Forces executed 100 waves of counterattacks over 40 days, targeting US and Israeli military assets, which resulted in significant damage.

A Pakistani-mediated two-week ceasefire was brokered on April 8, allowing for negotiations in Islamabad, where Iran proposed a ten-point plan seeking US troop withdrawal and the lifting of sanctions.

Despite 21 hours of intense talks on April 11 and 12, the Iranian delegation returned to Tehran without an agreement, citing deep mistrust regarding Washington's willingness to honor its commitments.

On Monday evening, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) reached between Tehran and Washington earlier in the day will bring an end to warfare on all fronts, including in Lebanon.

The SNSC secretariat also announced that the MoU is scheduled to be officially signed on Friday, June 19.

Despite the agreement, the Israeli army has conducted demolitions and shelling in several towns in southern Lebanon. Reports indicated that displaced residents were returning to some southern villages, while local municipalities advised caution and urged residents to postpone their returns.

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