据《时代》杂志报道，2025年12月，在美国入侵委内瑞拉并俘获其总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗大约一个月前，特朗普总统与埃隆·马斯克举行了一次秘密会晤。当时马斯克离开特朗普政府下属的“政府效率部”（DOGE）一职已约有七个月。

据一位消息人士向《时代》透露，在这次会面中，特朗普“花了几个小时”与马斯克的Grok聊天机器人交谈，其中包括询问委内瑞拉人会对他们总统被俘作何反应。就在几个月前的9月，特朗普开始下令美军对委内瑞拉船只发动打击，他声称这些船只涉及毒品走私。

据《大西洋月刊》当时的报道，人们显然一直在向Grok询问有关船只打击以及委内瑞拉政治气候的问题。因此，《时代》杂志报道称，Grok告诉特朗普，马杜罗是一位“极不得人心的独裁者”，许多委内瑞拉人可能会对他的倒台表示庆祝。

消息人士告诉《时代》杂志，当1月3日美国入侵后确实发生了此类庆祝活动时，特朗普显然“认为Grok非常机智”。

因此，今年6月五角大楼人工智能负责人称，美军在伊朗战争期间使用Gov Grok来部署和打击目标，这或许并不令人惊讶。

虽然Grok并非为美国国防部服务的唯一AI模型（OpenAI也已有协议，而Anthropic则就其模型如何用于军事情报和现代战争问题与美方进行了反复磋商），但在本届政府下，Grok可能会成为更受欢迎的选择。本周早些时候，五角大楼宣布，马斯克和Anduril公司的帕尔默·拉奇被指派共同领导一项关于先进技术目前及未来如何在战场上使用的研究。

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.