Elon Musk has declared that xAI will release its artificial intelligence (AI) model Grok as open source.
Musk, the billionaire proprietor of xAI, declared on his social media platform X that his AI startup will release the chatbot for public use this week.
Elon Musk had sued ChatGPT for seeking profit and straying from its original, charitable goal, but OpenAI had already responded.
Later, OpenAI released multiple emails that Musk had sent in the early days of the firm, which seem to show Musk realising that OpenAI needed to generate a lot of revenue to pay for the amazing computer power required to support its artificial intelligence goals.
Grok was launched by xAI last year, and it came equipped with capabilities like “real-time” information access and opinions that were unaffected by “politically correct” conventions. Customers who subscribe to X for $16 a month can use the service.
In line with his demands in his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk has decided to make Grok open source to further open-source artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.”
Musk’s startup xAI developed the AI chatbot Grok, which is comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot. As opposed to ChatGPT, Grok can get real-time information via the X social media platform and can reply to more urgent questions that certain other AI systems are unable to address.
The chatbot can only be used by users who have an approved X account. Based on a few comparisons, Grok AI—which uses the Grok-1 big language model—performs better than ChatGPT-3.5 but not as well as OpenAi’s ChatGPT-4 model.
Musk did not go into detail about his intentions to make Grok open source, but the majority of people who saw his message were supportive and complimented him on his choice.
One user responded by saying, “OpenAI should do the same. If they are ‘open’ that is,” to which Musk replied, “OpenAI is a lie.”