Radhika Parashar
- Binance is touted as the largest crypto exchange in the world by market cap
- For now, neither Musk nor Binance has explicitly spoken about a collaboration
- A clarification from the Binance team on these market whispers remains awaited
The official X handle of Binance playfully engaged with an Elon Musk post about Grok – opened floodgates of partnership speculations on social media. Given a lack of any solid history that connects Binance with Musk or his AI chatbot Grok, this interaction appeared rather unusual – especially at a time with crypto and AI partnerships are making it to the headlines more frequently than ever.
On Wednesday, July 16, Musk reshared a post highlighting Grok’s achievements in international markets, from a follower named Dima Zenuik. The post claimed that the AI chatbot has emerged as the number one app in South Korea, Belgium, Cyprus, Croatia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Reposting this Musk wrote, “It only gets better from here @Grok”. Soon after, Musk’s reshare had garnered over 14,000 likes and over 2,400 reshares. From over 2,300 comments that flooded Musk’s post in merely three hours, it was Binance’s reply that managed to grab the spotlight catching the attention of many.
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Replying to the Tesla chief’s statement predicting better things for Grok going forward, Binance posted, “The universe is listening”.
Binance’s surprising action got the crypto mills churning predictions that Musk was secretly playing matchmaker and planning a partnership between Grok and Binance.
A recent collaborative deal between Coinbase and Perplexity AI could be among reasons for conjectures being knitted around a potential teaming of Binance and Grok. Last week, Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong said Coinbase users can head to Perplexity AI to access trusted crypto info in real time.
Could Binance be working with Musk to strike a similar deal for Grok? CoinHeadlines has reached out to the Binance team seeking a comment on these speculations; however, a response from the exchange remains awaited for now.
