Depois de ter passado as últimas semanas a elogiar o sucesso e taxa de crescimento do Grok Bot, Elon Musk veio enfurecer todos os que o subscreveram, ao anunciar que afinal o custo do Grok Bot era insustentável, reduzindo os limites para metade.
O resultado prático, foi muitos utilizadores descobrirem que os seus agentes estavam parados, por terem atingido os limites inesperados, que foram aplicados sem qualquer aviso. E não demorou para que uma chuva de críticas se abatesse sobre Elon Musk, indo desde aqueles que relembravam que ele próprio diz que o dinheiro será irrelevante e não vale a pena pensar em poupanças, aos que equiparam a manobra a mais uma fraude ao estilo do FSD que tem vendido há mais de meia década e que já admitiu que não seria possível de entregar nos carros com HW3.
Two weeks ago Grok Bot was an incredible success story powering SpaceXai's revenue growth Now it's unsustainable and loses money (???) https://t.co/iV95Q4CfCg
— Benjamin De Kraker (@BenjaminDEKR) November 1, 2026
Even $300/m SuperGrok Heavy plans now only last 8 hours for a week’s quota. A PR costs $140. @Grok @Bot is now unusable. I will cancel my subscription if there is not clarity on what future quota will be @elonmusk. Degrading silently is fraud. The future is self-hosted.
— BowTied Fullstack - Link in bio or NGMI (@BowTiedStack) November 2, 2026
Elon told you yesterday to hire @grok @bot as an employee... today when your Grok Bot compute got cut in-half even though you pay the same, he just told you to deal with it. Bro...
— LM (@loyalmoses) November 2, 2026
I don't understand how this is legal. If you walk into a tire center and order 4 tires for $1200 and they are 80,000 mile BFGoodwrench tires, then the next week, you go to have them put on and instead they install cheaper 20,000 mile house brand tires... And the tire center says, "these are costing us too much so we installed the 20,000 mile tires instead." And they refuse to give you a refund. There would literally be massive legal ramifications and the tire shop would be liable. I paid for a specific multiple of a specific amount after months of testing. Now that multiple has been cut in half, mid-cycle, with no warning. I would argue this is a direct violation of the FEC rules (16 CFR Part 238). Pricing pages and marketing made the multipliers look like fixed relative entitlements for the billing period, and the reduction was extreme and sudden with no notice, there is a colorable argument that the original offer was misleading. That is different from a pure “rate limits at our discretion” clause.
— The Car Nut (@carnutchronicle) November 1, 2026
23:59: saving money is pointless 00:00: we need to save money https://t.co/uIyyAr9ZDB
— Bruno Lemos (@brunolemos) November 1, 2026
It's crazy how SpaceXSI operates... cutting/changing quotas with no transparency or announcements. Not the first time, they cut grandfathered SuperGrok+ Free Cursor Ultra promo users the same way. They have no transparency and no pre-comms... its the biggest risk of using them.
— Ben Vargas (@benvargas) November 2, 2026
Ok, rug-pulling your current users by nerfing their usage by 50% without any disclosure and then immediately appealing to new users is incredibly disrespectful. I'm surprised there's not more backlash against this. OpenAI and Anthropic would have had their socials bombarded if they pulled this stunt.
— Ishu Agrawal (@ishuagra02) November 2, 2026
What happened (I know nothing) - bot launched - 2 weeks later usage flatlined - Elon asked whatsup - PM says it’s your model, product is fine - Elon says ok, use whatever model - Team switches to Opus 5.5 - Growth skyrockets - Elon has never seen anything like it - see Anthropic bill - 🤯 forces quota cut -> you are here mfw when the model is the product
— Prakash (@8teAPi) November 1, 2026
Brincadeiras à parte, a principal questão é a de que se começa a tornar cada vez mais frequente um estilo de gestão em que, a qualquer momento Elon Musk decide mudar as regras. Ainda recentemente se teve o caso de desligar as comunicações Starlink na Ucrânia - que teve como efeito global fazer com que inúmeros países afastassem desde logo a possibilidade de confiar no serviço. Temos o caso do novo Tesla Roadster, que passou de um supercarro desenhado para a estrada para um "carro voador" /que ninguém pediu) que serviu para uma demonstração vistosa mas fortemente penalizado para o seu uso real. Temos os casos das mensalidades Starlink, que mudam a qualquer momento (recentemente passou a cobrar uma taxa de congestão que aumenta a mensalidade nas áreas mais densas). E agora, junta-se a tudo isso este corte substancial no Grok Bot, que vem no seguimento de uma unificação de planos que já tinha feito com que muitos subscritores se sentissem enganados.The issue isn't whether what Elon said is acceptable or not, it's the fact that the sudden usage bump was an uncommunicated change. No announcement, no heads up, nada. No one wants a product where you're paranoid that the usage can disappear randomly anytime, without notice.
— Ventus (@venthewise) November 2, 2026
As empresas concorrentes de AI agradecerão certamente, pois irão receber nova vaga de clientes nos próximos tempos.
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