xAI, an artificial intelligence startup that is one of Elon Musk’s many projects, will utilize open source software Grok. These are all real words now.
It’s not entirely surprising that Musk has open-sourced Grok, a ChatGPT-like chatbot modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by xAI. This move comes just a few days later Musk sued OpenAI because it is no longer an open source nonprofit.
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Only Grok is available for people who pay for the $16 a month subscription to X.
By making Grok open source, the public will have free access to the code that brings it all together. How – emphasized Reuters, open source technology like Grok can facilitate accelerate innovation in the space because you have many more people having access to it. But the same availability can benefit from: bad actorstoo.
Musk didn’t explain what aspects of Grok would be open source, what it would look like, or what it might lead to. But he replied to someone’s X in response to their post about Grok open sourcing, saying: “OpenAI is a lie”, so it is quite clear that it has something to do with the conflict between OpenAI and Musk. Musk co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman, and a lot has changed since then — most of which Musk doesn’t seem particularly elated about.
“To this day, the OpenAI website still claims that its charter is intended to ensure that AGI “benefits all of humanity.” In reality, however, OpenAI has been transformed into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” Musk’s lawsuit reads: according to TechCrunch.
For his part, Musk has been mostly consistent in his support for open source — many of Tesla’s patents are open source.
