“This week @xAI will open Grok software,” Musk said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Put simply, open source software like a chatbot means that software projects can be redistributed because all the source code is available to anyone. One of the benefits of having open source software is that it gives the enterprise the flexibility to solve a problem in multiple ways, rather than waiting for an internal team to provide a solution.
“OpenAI is a lie”
Meanwhile, a user suggested that OpenAI should do the same.
“OpenAI should do the same if it’s ‘open’,” the user said. Musk responded: “OpenAI is a lie.”
Musk wants AI technology to be open source
Musk introduced the idea of using artificial intelligence on an open-source basis during a podcast last November. In a podcast with Lex Fridman, Musk suggested that he likes the idea of open-source AI. “I’m generally a supporter of open sourcing, I’m kind of biased toward open sourcing,” he said.
His comments came shortly after his AI company called xAI released Grok, its chatbot, which reportedly took four months to build. Director of OpenAI Sam Altman he quickly became interested in it and shared a post where he built it Grok with a single prompt in GPT Builder.
“GPTs can save a lot of effort,” he said.
Musk apparently didn’t like the jab and responded with a lengthy message stating, “GPT-4 is about as comical as a screen door on a submarine.”
