Elon Musk says his AI startup xAI’s Grok chatbot will go open source.

Elon Musk called its artificial intelligence launch on Monday xAI It will be open source. Chat GPT “Challenger”Grok“This week, days after he sued OpenAI for abandoning its original mission in favor of a for-profit model.

The billionaire has on numerous occasions warned against big tech companies like Google using technology for profit. He sued Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015 but left last week, three years later.

“This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk said in a post on X, one of his social media firms.

The move would give the public free access to experiment with the code behind the technology and align xAI with firms such as Meta and France’s Mistral, both open-source AI models.

Google has also released an AI model called Gemma that outside developers can potentially fashion to suit their needs.

Tech investors, including OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, have been arguing for open sourcing in AI ever since Musk filed a lawsuit against the company that created ChatGPT.

While open-sourcing technology can help accelerate innovation, some experts warn that open-source AI models could be used by terrorists to create chemical weapons or develop a conscious superintelligence beyond human control. are

Musk said at the UK’s AI Safety Summit last year that he wanted to set up a “third-party referee” who could monitor firms developing AI and raise the alarm if they had concerns.

Seeking an alternative to OpenAI and Google, Musk launched xAI last year to build what he said would be “more truth-seeking AI.” In December, the startup introduced Grok to X’s Premium+ subscribers.

In a podcast episode with computer scientist and podcaster Lex Friedman, Musk suggested in November that he supports the concept of open-source AI.

“The name, Open in Open AI, stands for open source, and it was built as a non-profit open source. And now it’s a closed source for profit maximization,” Musk said. had said

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