Tech Entrepreneur, CEO of Tesla and Zai, Elon Musk, has announced a significant update to Xai’s Grok AI chatbot. But while doing so, he cited his own popular tweet, published four years ago in 2021.
At the time, the tweet became one of the Twitter posts that some analysts wanted to sue Musk, claiming he was engaged in manipulating financial markets.
“Stonks” tweet brought back by Grok Imagine. Bitcoin
In his tweet, Musk announced an upgrade that will be released soon when Grok can say words in a human voice. He released a six-second video (which allows you to make the biggest imagination ever) depicting the characters from the “Stonk” meme. This is a popular internet figure who portrays people who make poor financial decisions or misinterpret market trends. This video production feature is the latest innovation deployed by the Xai team, combining text, image and video generation capabilities in a single app.
Grok can say the words right away pic.twitter.com/14u79u4opu
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 15, 2025
The bald figure stands confidently in front of the burgeoning stock market charts, speaking without a sound. In 2021, Musk posted several tweets. Among them are “Stonks!” and “gamestonk.” The first one was related to the stock market (slang term for stocks). This was related to GameStop, the second share in a particular company’s stock. The platform was forced to suspend trading GMEs. Before that, he added Bitcoin to the Bio section of Twitter, pushing the price of BTC upwards. This is a whopping 20% per day.
Sec loses Tesla incident to Musk
In the same year, a group of worried investors claimed that Musk was manipulating the market simply by tweeting about stocks or BTC in a particular company. At the time, the tech mogul was in the midst of a lawsuit filed against him by the SEC after a 2018 tweet about Tesla stock.
In the end, the Securities and Exchange Commission lost the case.
