He also means that, but he means "intelligence" in the other sense too. They talk all the time about outsourcing our own memories and thinking to chatbots; they want to make everyone illiterate and reliant on machines to do all their thinking for them.

I think if he had intent behind the choice in dropping "artificial" he means to equate AI models with human intelligence. "Intelligence" in your framing is definitely a subset of the data they wish to have exclusive to their platform. They may also want to generate such intel by capturing the interface between human and computer such that targets with poor ops sec would spill the beans to their AI gf.

They've abstracted the sexy dtf spy into whatever grok is.