Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok is struggling to gain traction, according to a new Reuters investigation. The report reveals that Grok barely registers in federal records documenting how the US government deployed AI tools last year. Despite Musk's prominent role in the Trump administration, xAI's flagship product appears to be largely ignored by federal agencies. Reuters examined over 400 instances of government AI usage where specific vendors were identified. Grok or xAI showed up in only three cases, all involving basic tasks like document drafting or social media management—and even those instances occurred alongside competitors such as Microsoft and OpenAI. In stark contrast, OpenAI's models appeared in more than 230 entries, while Google and Anthropic each showed up dozens of times. A separate database tracking more ambitious government AI projects told the same story. Grok appeared just three times: twice for routine administrative work at the Election Assistance Commission and once in a Department of Energy pilot at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Microsoft and OpenAI combined accounted for 140 entries in this database, while Anthropic had at least 10 and Google's Gemini had dozens. The picture isn't entirely bleak for xAI—the data doesn't include intelligence agencies or the Pentagon, where xAI secured a $200 million contract last year and recently received clearance to operate on classified networks after Anthropic was effectively blacklisted. Still, the Reuters findings paint a clear picture: government workers have largely embraced competitors' AI tools while largely passing on Musk's chatbot.