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Elon Musk announced Monday that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will open source its chatbot Grok this week, while also taking on a new challenge to OpenAI amid a legal battle with the creators of ChatGPT.
Musk, the tech billionaire and CEO of Tesla, made the announcement on his social media platform X, and after a follower replied that OpenAI should do the same, Musk tweeted, “OpenAI is a lie. ” he wrote.
Technology mogul and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Vivatech Technology Startup and Innovation Fair event held at Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center in Paris on June 16, 2023. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Musk’s move to open source Grok comes less than two weeks after he sued OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015 and left in 2018. The company claims it has abandoned its original founding mission of developing open source artificial general intelligence technology for profit. Emphasis on humanity over profits.
The lawsuit also names OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman, who along with fellow co-founder Greg Brockman initially worked with Musk to create an open source nonprofit company. approach, alleging that the company’s shift to making money violated that contract.
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Musk has accused OpenAI of breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices, and is now calling for the Microsoft-backed company to return to open source.
Sam Altman (left), American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, with Ilya Satskeva, co-founder and chief scientist of the company. will be speaking at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Jack Guess/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Altman, Brockman and OpenAI’s chief scientist Ilya Satskeva pushed back against the lawsuit in a blog post on the company’s website last week, writing, “We intend to move to dismiss all of Mr. Musk’s claims.” .
In their posts, OpenAI leaders revealed exchanges showing that Musk supported the group’s move to create a for-profit entity and suggested it should merge with Tesla.
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Mr. Musk’s move to open source Gronk will allow the public to freely experiment with the code behind the technology, and will allow xAI to be used by companies such as Meta and France’s Mistral, which have open source AI models. It is possible to collaborate with
Google has also released an AI model called Gemma that external developers may be able to create based on their needs.
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Technology investors, including OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, have been pushing for open source AI since Musk filed a lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker. We have been discussing about transformation.
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While open source technology can help accelerate innovation, some experts believe open source AI models could be used by terrorists to manufacture chemical weapons or even create conscious superintelligence beyond human control. It warns that it may be used for development.
At the UK’s AI Safety Summit last year, Musk said he wanted to create an “third-party umpire” who could oversee companies developing AI and sound the alarm if there were concerns.
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Seeking an alternative to OpenAI and Google, Musk launched xAI last year, saying it would create “the most truth-seeking AI.” In December, the startup rolled out Grok to X Premium+ subscribers.
In a podcast episode with computer scientist and podcaster Rex Fridman in November, Musk suggested he supported the concept of open source AI.
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“The name open in Open AI is supposed to mean open source, but it was created as non-commercial open source, and now it’s closed source for maximum benefit,” Musk said.
FOX Business’ Michael Dorgan, Eric Revell and Reuters contributed to this report.
