Elon Musk said he would publish his “truth-seeking” answers to ChatGPT, the chatbot Grok, for anyone to download and use, after he sued OpenAI this month, accusing the company of being too insular. .
“This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk said. I have written today on his social media platform X. This suggests that his AI company xAI will release the complete code of his Grok for anyone to use or modify. In contrast, OpenAI makes its version of ChatGPT and the language model behind it available for free, but keeps its code private.
Musk has so far said little about Grok or xAI's business model, and has made the chatbot available only to X's premium subscribers. Musk, who earlier this month accused OpenAI co-founders of breaking a promise to hand over the company's artificial intelligence, may want to show that he is committed to that vision by creating his own We felt we needed to open source our chatbot.
OpenAI responded to Musk's lawsuit last week, releasing email messages between him and others in which he said the company's technology would become more insular as it became more powerful. seemed to support the idea. Musk ended up plowing more than $40 million into OpenAI before exiting the project in 2018.
When Musk first announced that Grok was in development, he promised it would be less politically biased than ChatGPT and other AI models that he and others with right-leaning views have criticized as too liberal. Tests by WIRED and others quickly showed that while Grok can adopt a provocative style, he doesn't lean too heavily in one direction or another. Perhaps the challenge of consistently aligning an AI model to a particular perspective has become apparent.
By open sourcing Grok, Musk may be able to drum up interest in his company's AI. Restricting access to Grok to only paying subscribers of X, one of his smaller global social platforms, means Grok still doesn't have the same traction as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. It means that. Releasing Grok may encourage developers to use and build on your models, which may ultimately make them available to more end users. This could provide xAI with data that can be used to improve the technology.
Musk's move to unleash Grok shows he aligns with a meta approach to generative AI. Meta's open source models, like Llama 2, are popular among developers because they can be fully customized and adapted to a variety of uses. But a similar strategy could further heighten the debate over the benefits and risks of giving everyone access to the most powerful AI models, further entangling Musk.
Many AI experts argue that open sourcing AI models has significant benefits, including increased transparency and expanded access. “Open models are more secure and robust, and it's great to have more choices from the big players in this space,” said Emad Mostak, founder of Stability AI, a company that builds a variety of open source AI models. .
