If you own a Tesla, your next road trip could be planned by Grok.
Tesla unveiled its 2025 holiday update over the weekend, and the company said Elon Musk’s AI chatbot can now add and edit navigation destinations.
A video demonstration uploaded by Tesla showed the AI assistant, which was built by Musk’s AI startup xAI, responding to a voice command and adding multiple destinations around San Francisco to the car’s infotainment screen. Grok was first integrated into Tesla vehicles in July.
The new feature, which the automaker said would turn Grok into “your personal guide,” is the latest sign of the increasingly close integration between Tesla’s vehicles and Musk’s AI chatbot.
Musk announced that Grok would be coming to Tesla EVs in July, shortly after the AI model went on an antisemitic rant on X in which it praised Adolf Hitler.
Since then, Grok has attracted headlines for insisting that Musk is in better shape than LeBron James and reportedly revealing the home addresses of everyday people.
Tesla and xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Grok is only available on certain Tesla vehicles with sufficiently powerful processors. The chatbot can be set to a range of different personalities, including storyteller, assistant, and “unhinged.”
The feature update comes as Tesla looks to turn around its sales slump, with the EV maker likely to post declining annual sales for the second year in a row.
It also comes after investors voted on whether Tesla should invest an undisclosed sum in xAI at the company’s annual shareholder meeting last month.
While more shareholders voted in favor than against, a large number abstained. Tesla’s board said it would, for now, just examine the “next steps” in light of the abstentions.
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