Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/spacexai-identity-crisis-at-elon-musk-s-chatbot-company"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260716/i25.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260716/p25#a260716p25" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Carmen Arroyo / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/spacexai-identity-crisis-at-elon-musk-s-chatbot-company">Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The company wants to compete with Anthropic's Claude but has been slowed down by internal chaos and an inconsistent strategy.</p>