Elon Musk To Make His ChatGPT Competitor ‘Grok’ Open-Source For All To Use
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Elon Musk just threw down the gauntlet in the world of generative artificial intelligence, announcing his chatbot Grok will be open-sourced starting this week. This move comes hot on the heels of his lawsuit against OpenAI, a company he co-founded, which shifted away from open-source principles.
Previously, Grok, developed by Musk’s xAI firm, was accessible only to Premium+ X (formerly Twitter) users who coughed up a US$16 monthly fee. Now, it’s being extended to everyone.
Opening the codebase allows anyone with coding know-how to tinker, improve, and build upon Grok’s capabilities. This flies in the face of the current trend in AI, where companies like Google and OpenAI choose to keep their developments under wraps.
This week, @xAI will open source Grok
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2024
Musk’s assurance is a clear jab at OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT, which is now profit-led to recoup the hefty amounts poured into the project. Grok, inspired by the sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, now aims to become a go-to source for AI knowledge, freely available to all.
OpenAI is a lie
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2024
One thing’s for sure, the battle for AI dominance is heating up.
[via Reuters, France24, Forbes, Mashable, cover photo 296269292 © Rafael Henrique | Dreamstime.com]
