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