Your Medium articles can get cited in Grok, even if they are not indexed in Google

Three days ago I wrote an article on my Medium account about indexing. I cant get it to index, as all my articles has noindex in the sourcecode.
Today I was doing research in Grok, and searched for what is a google indexing tool. It gave me a detailed answer, and when I looked at the sources, what did I find?
My own Medium article.. When I asked Grok, it confirmed, that even non indexed articles on Medium are found by Groks own web index, what ever that means.
I guess Im not giving up on Medium after all...