《时代》杂志报道称，2025年12月，即美国入侵委内瑞拉并抓获该国总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗约一个月前，特朗普总统曾与埃隆·马斯克秘密会面。此时距马斯克卸任特朗普政府政府效率部（DOGE）职务约七个月。
In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
据《时代》援引一名消息人士的话称，在这次会面中，特朗普花了“数小时”与马斯克的 Grok 聊天，其中包括询问委内瑞拉民众将如何回应其总统被抓一事。几个月前的9月，特朗普开始下令美军袭击据称涉及毒品交易的委内瑞拉船只。
During this meeting, Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president, a source told Time. Just a few months earlier, in September, Trump began ordering U.S. military strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump alleged were involved in drug trafficking.
《大西洋月刊》当时报道称，显然已有不少人向 Grok 询问有关船只袭击和委内瑞拉政治局势的问题。Grok 因此告诉特朗普，马杜罗是一名“极不受欢迎的独裁者，许多委内瑞拉人可能会庆祝他的倒台”，《时代》报道称。
People had apparently been turning to Grok asking about the boat strikes and political climate in Venezuela, as the Atlantic reported at the time. So Grok told Trump that Maduro was a “deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall,” Time reported.
上述消息人士告诉《时代》，美国1月3日入侵委内瑞拉后，相关庆祝活动确实出现了，而特朗普似乎也因此“认为 Grok 很聪明”。
When such celebrations indeed happened after the U.S. invaded on January 3, Trump apparently “came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” that source told Time.
因此Perhaps，今年6月，五角大楼人工智能负责人表示军方在伊朗战争期间使用政府版 Grok（Gov Grok）部署并打击目标，这或许并不令人意外。
So perhaps it should come as no surprise that in June of this year, the Pentagon’s head of AI said that the military used Gov Grok to deploy and strike targets during the Iran War.
尽管 Grok 并不是唯一为美国国防部提供服务的 AI 模型——OpenAI 也与国防部达成了协议，而 Anthropic 则一直在就其模型能否用于军事情报和现代战争展开讨论——但 Grok 可能会成为本届政府更加偏爱的模型。本周早些时候，五角大楼宣布，马斯克和安杜里尔公司的帕尔默·拉基已获选共同牵头开展一项研究，探讨先进技术如何以及能否用于战场。
While Grok isn’t the only AI model serving the DoD (OpenAI also has an agreement and Anthropic has been in a back-and-forth over how its models can be used for military intelligence and in modern warfare), Grok may become an even bigger favorite under this administration. Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey have been tapped to co-lead a study about how advanced technology is, and can be, used in battlefields.