Elon Musk announced that Grok will be available as open source this week. Michael Buckner/Getty
Elon Musk posted on X that his startup Grok’s AI will be released as open source this week.
It is unclear which aspects of Grok will be made available to the public.
The post comes a few days after Musk sued OpenAI. He accuses the company of abandoning its original mission to benefit humanity.
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Elon Musk announced on Monday that his Chat GPT competitor “Grok” will be released as open source this week – and attacked rival OpenAI again. “This week xAI will open source Grok,” Musk wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). This means that the source code of the software is freely accessible.
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It is unclear which parts of Grok’s source code will be publicly available. Previously, the AI bot Grok was only available to X premium subscribers. The xAI chatbot, launched in November, was designed as what Musk calls a more politically neutral and sarcastic version of Chat GPT. It also uses X to generate answers in real time.
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Musk’s move to make the AI bot Grok open source comes just over a week after the billionaire sued OpenAI. He accused the company of abandoning its original mission of acting for the good of humanity by merging with one of the world‘s largest technology companies.
Musk’s lawyers argued that the partnership turned OpenAI into a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft. This results in the company making decisions based on maximizing profits for Microsoft, the lawyers said.
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A few days after the lawsuit was filed, OpenAI released a series of emails that revealed that Musk wanted to merge Tesla with OpenAI. In the email exchange, Musk also agreed that OpenAI needs to shift to a for-profit model, saying the startup needs “billions per year immediately.” Elon Musk commented that “OpenAI is a lie” in a response to his post about Grok moving to open source.
Musk and his lawyers did not respond to requests for comment.
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