Elon Musk's AI company xAI is set to open-source its ChatGPT rival Grok this week, the Tesla CEO posted on X (formerly Twitter). The move comes after the SpaceX boss sued OpenAI, alleging it shifted from the initial mission towards a for-profit model. Minutes after sharing the announcement, Musk had a cheeky reply to a user who said that the ChatGPT maker should also do the same.

Taking to the microblogging platform, the billionaire said that "This week, @xAI will open source Grok". In the comments section, after a user replied: "OpenAI should do the same. If they are 'open' that is," the X owner said: "OpenAI is a lie". Elon has been vocal against the use of AI technology for purely profits by tech companies. In a recent move, he filed a case against OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company he left in 2018.

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Here is what Elon Musk said:

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Several personalities, such as investor Vinod Khosla and Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz, have argued for open-sourcing AI since the Tesla CEO's lawsuit concerning OpenAI. While advocates of open-sourcing technology believe it can boost innovations, critics have flagged that the technology may be used for malpractices.

In an episode with podcaster Lex Fridman, Musk favoured open-source AI. "The name, the open in OpenAI, is supposed to mean open source, and it was created as a nonprofit open source. And now it is a closed source for maximum profit," he had said. The move to open-source Grok is expected to give developers a chance to experiment with its code similar to other AI models.

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Speaking of Grok, the AI chatbot is available to Premium+ users on X in limited regions. The Premium+ tier on the web costs Rs 1,300 every month or Rs 13,600 for one year in India. It draws real-time knowledge from X and can "answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems," the makers claim. The large language model (LLM) powering Grok is Grok-1.


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