On Sunday, Elon Musk released the computer code that powers his up-to-date artificial intelligence company’s chatbot called Grok, the latest move its ongoing rivalry with OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Musk’s company xAI has made Grok-1 an open-source artificial intelligence model on Sunday on its website. “We are releasing the weights and architecture of our Grok-1 model with 314 billion Mixture-of-Experts parameters,” the company said.
Behind schedule last month, Musk sued OpenAI AND Altmanalleging that ChatGPT maker’s multi-year, multi-billion partnership with Microsoft is revealing its founding commitment to benefit humanity instead of profit. The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices. The billionaire also asked to order OpenAI to make its research and technology available to the public.
“OpenAI, Inc. was transformed into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” Musk’s lawsuit reads. “Under the up-to-date management, the company is not only developing, but even improving [artificial general intelligence] maximize profits for Microsoft, not for the good of humanity.”
Last July Musk announced the creation of his own artificial intelligence company, xAI. In November, he told X that he would release his first AI product “to a select group.” Although xAI is independent of X, Musk’s social networking site, formerly known as Twitter, company website says it will work closely with Tesla, electric vehicle maker X, and Musk.
OpenAI which Musk founded it with Altman in 2015 before leaving, he responded to Musk’s lawsuit earlier this month with a statement a blog post with email screenshots from Musk during his time at the company. They showed him he supported making OpenAI a for-profit company and pushed for its merger with Tesla compete with Google’s artificial intelligence efforts. In its response, OpenAI said Musk wanted to start with a $1 billion funding commitment “so it wouldn’t sound hopeless” after Altman and their other co-founder Greg Brockman initially planned to raise $100 million.
“Elon left OpenAI stating that a proper competitor to Google/DeepMind was needed and that he intended to go it alone,” OpenAI said in a blog post. “He said he would support us in finding our own path.”
-Britney Nguyen contributed to this article.
