Elon Musk has teased the official Grok CLI for developers aiming to outcompete Anthropic Claude in the agentic coding race.
The announcement comes as the founder of xAI responded to a user’s post about frustration with Anthropic popular terminal-based AI coding tool, which handles file edits, shell commands, and complex codebases right in the developer's workflow.
The user wrote in a post, “Hey elonmusk, if you hate Anthropic so much, make a Grok CLI and I’ll cancel my Anthropic subscription today.”
Elon Musk replied, “Coming soon.” without citing any further details regarding date, pricing and features.
Community versions like superagent-ai/grok-cli already exist using xAI's API, and Musk's tease hints at an official version to compete in the agentic coding space.
The major announcement came a day after Elon Musk accused Anthropic of stealing training data at a massive scale.
Taking to X, the CEO of SpaceX wrote, “Anthropic is guilty of stealing training data at massive scale and has had to pay multi-billion-dollar settlements for their theft. This is just a fact.”
Prior to those claims, Anthropic shared disturbing findings, accusing Chinese AI firms, such as DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of using Claude for unauthorized model training.
According to the US-based artificial intelligence company, these start-ups used a technique called “distillation” in which these AI firms extract and leverage outputs from a more powerful AI system to rapidly boost the performance of low-scale models.
“These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models,” Anthropic posted.