ALBAWABA - Days after he filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing they left behind their open-source strategy for profit, Elon Musk has stated that in a post on X (formerly Twitter) his artificial intelligence firm xAI plans to make its ChatGPT competitor "Grok" available to the public in open-source this week.
Earlier this month, Musk had filed a complaint against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015 before departing shortly after three years according to Reuters. OpenAI responded by publishing emails that revealed Musk was backing a proposal to establish a for-profit firm and favored a merger with Tesla in order to turn the merged business into a "cash cow."
Grok released by xAI last year in an aimed swing at OpenAI, built around a database akin to ChatGPT and Meta's Llama 2, but according to Musk, it will make use of real-time access to information on X. Additionally, it will have the ability to browse the web for current information on certain topics.
Musk's promise that he would soon open-source Grok implies that xAI will be added to the group of expanding companies who have made their chatbot programs publicly available, such as Meta and the French business Mistral, as well as assert his longs standing position in favour of tech open-sourcing, as he previously did with a number of Tesla’s patents.
Tech investors, like Vinod Khosla, an endorser of OpenAI, and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of investment firm company Andreessen Horowitz, have been arguing over open-sourcing in AI since the case, Reuters reported, adding that although open-sourcing technology helps expedite innovation, certain experts are concerned that terrorists may exploit open-source AI models to produce chemical weapons or possibly a sentient superintelligence that is uncontrollable by humans.
