Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced its AI chatbot Grok, making it available on GitHub for researchers and developers to enhance and influence future updates. The release includes the base model weights and network architecture of the 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1, developed over the last four months. However, it has not undergone fine-tuning for specific applications like dialogue. The open release is under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing commercial use but without the training data or real-time connections. Musk’s move follows the release of Twitter’s algorithm code after he acquired the platform. This contrasts with OpenAI, which he is suing for not open-sourcing its AI model as originally agreed. Other companies have also released open-source or limited open-source AI models to gather feedback for improvement. Grok was initially accessible with an X subscription but was criticized for lacking the edge of other advanced chatbots.
