Elon Musk's xAI has open-sourced the Grok AI model's base code, allowing developers and researchers to utilize the powerful weights and architecture behind xAI's Grok chatbot for their projects completely free of charge.
The company described it as the "314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Expert model" on GitHub.
Musk's xAI Opens Up Grok for Public Development
In a blog post, xAI said that the model was not optimized for any specific use case, such as having conversations with it. Without providing further information, the business stated that Grok-1 was trained on a "custom" stack, and commercial use cases are allowed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0, which licenses the model.
Musk announced on X, formerly Twitter, last week that xAI planned to make the Grok model available to the public this week. The company made Grok available to Premium+ social network users X, formerly Twitter, as a chatbot last year.
Notably, although the open-source model lacks social network connections, the chatbot can access some of the X data.
Several well-known companies, such as Meta's LLaMa, Mistral, Falcon, and AI2, have made parts of their AI models open-source. Google also unveiled two new open models in February, Gemma2B and Gemma7B.
Furthermore, some AI-driven tool developers are already discussing integrating Grok into their products. Perplexity CEO Arvind Srinivas announced on X that Grok would be enhanced for conversational search and made accessible to Pro users.
Due to the "betrayal" of the nonprofit AI goal, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI earlier this month, sparking a legal battle between the two companies. He has now criticized OpenAI and Sam Altman on X.
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Musk Predicts AI Superiority by 2025
Renowned entrepreneur Musk has sparked debates with his audacious forecast that AI will outpace human intelligence by 2025. The claim made by Musk in a podcast interview has spurred discussion over the possible effects of developing AI technology.
In a controversial remark, Musk made AI predictions that have sparked new conversations. The tech billionaire's comments came during a recent Joe Rogan Experience podcast interview.
"AI will be vastly smarter than humans and amplify its lead at an astonishing rate," Musk declared, projecting AI could match human intelligence next year and leave humanity's collective wit in the dust by 2029. His audacious prediction aligns with earlier predictions by futurist Ray Kurzweil, who predicted that this decade would see the crucial AI "singularity."
Although aggressive timelines for transformational AI have caused skepticism in the past, Musk's prominence as one of the most powerful tech visionaries in the world immediately elevated the announcement's impact. If his forecast came to pass, observers wondered what kind of seismic shifts would bring about employment, education, and society.
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