Elon Musk declared that xAI chatbot would make its artificial intelligence (AI) model Grok open source amidst the escalating lawsuit between its competitor OpenAI.
Musk announced on March 11 via X that Grok will become open source beginning this week.
Users largely praised Musk for making Grok open source even though he did not specify his intentions in his post. In response, one user stated, “OpenAI ought to follow suit. “If they are ‘open,'” Musk replied, “OpenAI is a fabrication.”
Elon Musk initiated legal proceedings against OpenAI on February 29, alleging a violation of the agreement that entered into the foundation of OpenAI as a nonprofit entity.
The author posits that the collaboration between OpenAI and Microsoft violates the fundamental tenets of the nonprofit agreement, which is to promote open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit humanity.
By the end of 2023, Microsoft had reportedly invested nearly $3 billion in OpenAI.
Elon Musk petitions OpenAI to revert to its original open-source tenets and requests an injunction against the commercial exploitation of AGI technology in the lawsuit.
Owing to the emails purportedly containing Musk’s concurrence with the organization’s transition into a for-profit enterprise, OpenAI executives issued a joint statement a few days after the lawsuit’s filing.
In response to the lawsuit, OpenAI has re-appointed former CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors after his dismissal and subsequent re-employment in November 2023. The board stated at the time that it was still being determined to what extent his departure would disrupt the organization.
Elon Musk’s resolution to release Grok into the public domain is consistent with the demands he outlined in his legal complaint against OpenAI, which aimed to promote open-source artificial intelligence for the betterment of humanity.
Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot from Musk’s xAI, is comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In contrast to ChatGPT, Grok answers many contentious inquiries that other AI systems decline and has access to real-time data via the X social media platform.
Users who wish to access the chatbot must possess a verified X account. Comparative analysis reveals that Grok AI, propelled by the Grok-1 large language model, outperforms ChatGPT-3.5 but falls short of OpenAi’s ChatGPT-4 model.
