Elon Musk mentioned on Monday his synthetic intelligence startup xAI would open-source its ChatGPT challenger “Grok” this week, days after he sued OpenAI for abandoning its unique mission in favor of a for-profit mannequin.
The billionaire has warned on a number of events in opposition to the usage of know-how for revenue by huge know-how firms similar to Google. He filed the lawsuit in opposition to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015 however left three years later, final week.
“This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk mentioned in a submit on X, the social media agency he owns.
The transfer might give the general public free entry to experiment with the code behind the know-how and aligns xAI with corporations similar to Meta and France’s Mistral, each of which have open-source AI fashions.
Google has additionally launched an AI mannequin referred to as Gemma that exterior builders can probably style in accordance with their wants.
Tech traders together with OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of enterprise capital agency Andreessen Horowitz, have been debating about open-sourcing in AI since Musk filed the lawsuit in opposition to the ChatGPT maker.
While open-sourcing know-how can assist velocity up improvements, some specialists have warned that open-source AI fashions may very well be utilized by terrorists to create chemical weapons and even develop a acutely aware super-intelligence past human management.
Musk mentioned at Britain’s AI Safety Summit final 12 months that he needed to ascertain a “third-party referee” that would oversee corporations growing AI and sound the alarm if they’ve issues.
Seeking an alternative choice to OpenAI and Google, Musk launched xAI final 12 months to create what he mentioned can be a “maximum truth-seeking AI”. In December, the startup rolled out Grok for Premium+ subscribers of X.
In a podcast episode with pc scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman, Musk prompt in November that he favored the idea of open-source AI.
“The name, the open in open AI, 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,” Musk had mentioned.
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