On Monday, Elon Musk disclosed that Grok, the vendor’s generative AI chatbot, will become open source through his new AI business, xAI. November 2023 saw the vendor’s AI chatbot’s debut. A paid premium user of Musk’s X social media site may have early access to it. The platform describes it as an AI chatbot with “a bit of wit” and “a rebellious streak.”
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It is driven by Grok-1, a large language model (LLM) that, according to Xai, is similar in size to OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and the Llama 2 70B-parameter model from Meta.
Musk announced his intention to release the AI chatbot as open source over two weeks after he sued OpenAI, claiming that its president Greg Brockman, and CEO Sam Altman had broken the terms of the original agreement that established the vendor and AI research company.
Elon Musk challenges OpenAI’s non-transparency
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, has announced plans to make Grok, his artificial intelligence chatbot, open source. This move positions Grok as a competitor to Chat GPT, developed by OpenAI, a company Musk co-founded in 2015. The announcement, made on social media platform X, is a significant moment in the ongoing AI technology development debate.
OpenAI’s decision to open source Grok reflects a broader division within the tech community, with companies like IBM advocating for transparency and collaboration.
OpenAI and Google, on the other hand, prefer proprietary technologies to prevent misuse and fund AI development costs. Musk filed a lawsuit against Open AI, accusing it of straying from its mission of democratizing AI research.
Open AI responded by claiming Musk’s actions were motivated by personal interests. Musk has threatened to withdraw the lawsuit if Open AI rebrands to “Closed AI,” highlighting the tension between their differing AI development philosophies. Grok and Musk’s preferred position in the tech industry is being influenced by openness, according to Shah. Openness is used as an advertising mechanism, as demonstrated by Meta’s Llama 2 open-source project. Shah believes that Musk’s motivation is not just to gain attention for the LLM but also to attract more AI products.
Call for tech companies to make ‘AI models public’ rises
After filing a lawsuit against Open AI and its CEO, Sam Altman, Musk made Grok, a competitor of Open AI’s Chat GPT, available to the public.
Using Microsoft, the lawsuit demands that OpenAI disclose its research and technologies to the public and charges OpenAI with putting profit ahead of public good. xAI’s Grok leverages the X platform to react to commands with current contextual awareness.
In line with businesses like the Technology Innovation Institute, Meta, and Mistral, whose AI models are available to the public, Musk has decided to make Grok open source.
However, Grok’s development and acceptance might be accelerated by allowing developers to contribute to the project by making it open source. Musk has conceded that until xAI catches up to OpenAI, it could take some time.
With several of Tesla’s patents available for public use, Musk has demonstrated his dedication to open-source technology across a number of his business endeavors. In a tweet, Musk revealed that parts of the massive social media company’s algorithms may be made available to the public, only a year after he purchased Twitter.
Musk’s Grok
Founder Elon Musk of x AI made the decison to made the product public on Monday morning, following his announcement last week that the company would start granting select users access to its first AI product. The product boasts high efficiency, real-time information access, and a sense of humor that is often irreverent and immature, all of which are very much in line with Musk’s sensibilities.
Grok, which derives from the colloquial meaning of “understanding,” is a Large Language Model (LLM) designed to rival other industry leaders like GPT from Open AI and Claude 2 from Anthropic.
However, the x AI website, which Musk’s article linked to, indicates that Grok is presently accessible to “a limited number of users in the United States” and that potential users can join its waitlist to obtain early access; however, doing so necessitates having an account on the X social network (previously Twitter).
The usage of Grok was stated as being free.
Grok, a chatbot developed by x AI, began with a prototype model called Grok-0, trained on 33 billion parameters of data. This model, compared to Meta LLama 2’s 70 billion and OpenAI’s older GPT-3.5 models, uses only half of its training resources. x AI made significant improvements.
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