Tesla is capping employee AI spending at $200 a week from July 6, according to an internal memo. The move reverses months of Tesla pushing staff to use AI harder, after some engineers burned thousands in tokens weekly. The cap notably exempts Elon Musk’s xAI beta products, steering workers toward Grok and Composer—even as many Tesla engineers quietly prefer Anthropic’s Claude. Tesla is capping employee AI spending at $200 a week from July 6, according to an internal memo. The move reverses months of Tesla pushing staff to use AI harder, after some engineers burned thousands in tokens weekly. The cap notably exempts Elon Musk’s xAI beta products, steering workers toward Grok and Composer—even as many Tesla engineers quietly prefer Anthropic’s Claude.
