Tesla told staff it will impose a $200-per-week limit on employee AI spending starting July 6, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The cap follows a period where Tesla leadership worked to move scattered employee AI usage onto a companywide approach, and some teams built internal dashboards ranking employees by token consumption to encourage more usage. Software engineers were often consuming “thousands of dollars’ worth of tokens each week,” according to two people familiar with the usage. Under the new policy, workers will need sign-off to spend above $200 per week, though the memo says the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products. The $200 limit excludes beta versions of xAI products, which steers heavy users toward Elon Musk’s own AI company. Despite the internal push, Grok is not popular among Tesla staff, with many using Anthropic’s Claude instead, according to four people. Musk himself later admitted xAI was “not built right” just weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion into it.