Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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Grok: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

Grok came up in 13 of 89 episodes (15%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 9% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.

13 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

10%May 105 of 524%Jun 72 of 469%Jul 56 of 697%Aug 24 of 5515%Aug 308 of 5515%Sep 2713 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “Grok”, “Grock” or “Grockbot” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 13 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“There's been a whole bunch of these things. Actually, I went back to Grock and I just asked, "Hey, give me examples…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Apr 5 · Watch at 10:26 ↗

Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…

“…notionally the largest customer for grock for coding. Okay, they have their market share has fallen and they've…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 2:29 ↗

Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Can…

“…baked all that into Meme Lord using a mix of models, uh, Gemini, Grock, uh, and more. Um, I would say like out of…”

How I AI · week ending May 3 · Watch at 44:45 ↗

How a non-technical founder built a $100K ARR meme company | Jason Levin (Memelord CEO)

“…know if you noticed this. Uh Tyler, what was it? Grock launched voice cloning today or something which is Why is that…”

TBPN · week ending May 3 · Watch at 1:06:13 ↗

Mike Isaac (NYT) Joins, Earnings Review, Beautiful Data Centers, Coatue is Land Maxxing

“Like Look, if you cannot, using Claude or ChatGPT or Codex or Grok, write a SQL query, you should not be…”

Invest Like the Best · week ending May 10 · Watch at 27:43 ↗

"The OpEx Was Just Honestly Stupid" — Kaz Nejatian on What He Found Inside Opendoor

“…better. Like there was one point where where Grock 4 was doing really well and made like a huge jump but like it wasn't…”

Latent Space · week ending Jun 7 · Watch at 44:55 ↗

When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs

Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“…launches. Opus 5.5 launched today. Gro 4.7 was yesterday. Uh, and Grock 4.7, no one was even Elon was like, "Okay, we're…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 8:40 ↗

Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…

“…flip book before with our uh Ethan her episode with Grock uh video and I think it's very engaging visually. I think…”

Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 49:36 ↗

Runway’s Bet Beyond Video: World Models, Robotics, and the Neural OS — Anastasis Germanid…

“…uh OpenAI and Anthropic, but also includes I think Grock's in here. I think Muse is in here. So who knows what…”

How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 10:04 ↗

Opus 5.5 is great (but GPT-6 Sol is better)

“…spent the last three years geeking out about this. And then Grockbot comes out and then Muse comes out from Meta. And…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 24:42 ↗

Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…

“The ultimate vision of Grockbot is incredibly simple. You should have a…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · Watch at 0:00 ↗

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
How I AI35
All-In Podcast214
TBPN26
20VC with Harry Stebbings23
Lenny's Podcast22
Latent Space13
Dwarkesh Podcast12
Invest Like the Best01
Lex Fridman Podcast01
My First Million01
The Tim Ferriss Show01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Grok”, “Grock” or “Grockbot” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. Counts Grok, the xAI model, including the caption spellings Grock and Grockbot. Captions also write Groq, the chip company, as Grock, so we skip a mention when chip words such as Nvidia, LPU, inference or Cerebras are in the same passage. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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