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Elon Musk's xAI Open Sources Grok Chatbot, Escalating AI War

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Source: Ars Technica
Elon Musk's xAI Open Sources Grok Chatbot, Escalating AI War
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Elon Musk's AI firm xAI has released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a large language model designed to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT, through GitHub and BitTorrent. The release comes amid Musk's criticism of OpenAI for not making its AI models open. Grok-1, with 314 billion parameters, is available for download but requires datacenter-class inference hardware to run. The release is not termed "open-source" due to restrictions, and the model's Apache 2 license makes it one of the largest open-weights models released so far.

Topics:business#ai-models#elon-musk#grok-1#openai#technology#xai
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  1. Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI  Ars Technica
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  4. xAI open sources Grok  The Verge
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