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.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 13 episodes behind the newest bar
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Runway’s Bet Beyond Video: World Models, Robotics, and the Neural OS — Anastasis Germanid…Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Opus 5.5 is great (but GPT-6 Sol is better)How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 6 times
- Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 8 times
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 72 times
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 11 times
- Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 12 times
- 7 Grok Bot agents I use every dayHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it 42 times
- GPT-6 Astra blew away every one of my benchmarksHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
- GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuel…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 9 times
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…”
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…”
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 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…”
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…”
"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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”
“…spent the last three years geeking out about this. And then Grockbot comes out and then Muse comes out from Meta. And…”
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…”
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| How I AI | 3 | 5 |
| All-In Podcast | 2 | 14 |
| TBPN | 2 | 6 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 2 | 3 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 2 | 2 |
| Latent Space | 1 | 3 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 1 | 2 |
| Invest Like the Best | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| My First Million | 0 | 1 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 0 | 1 |
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.