Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT, will be open source starting this week

In the midst of a dispute with OpenAI, Elon Musk promised that GrokAI chatbot developed by xAI and integrated into X (Twitter), will be released to open source this week. The tycoon announced this via short publication on a social network.

Of course, Elon Musk did not provide additional details on this issue. That is, it is not yet clear whether xAI plans to open access to the entire Grok source code or whether only some functions or capabilities of the chatbot will become available. Open source. This is an important detail, as there has been controversy over a similar Meta promise in the past.

In 2023, Mark Zuckerberg’s people launched LLaMA 2 and several applications based on it. It’s all supposedly open source. However, the Open Source Initiative has clarified that the language model license is not Open sourceas it restricts its commercial use to certain users and prohibits its implementation for certain purposes. It remains to be seen whether the same will happen to Grok or not..

Returning to Musk’s statement, the businessman took the opportunity to criticize Sam Altman and his company. “OpenAI should do the same. If they are “open,” the businessman’s follower replied, to which Musk public: “OpenAI is a lie”. A remark that is not surprising. Not only because of the direct competition between Grok and ChatGPT, but especially because of the ongoing litigation between the leader of Tesla, SpaceX and X (Twitter) and the San Francisco startup he helped found.

Earlier this month, Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its senior management for alleged breach of contract. He even accused the company of becoming a de facto subsidiary of Microsoft. Of course, Sam Altman’s people did not remain silent and published a sharp response to the tycoon. In fact, they accused him of wanting merge OpenAI with Tesla gain “absolute control” of the company.

Starting this week, Grok will be open source, Elon Musk promises.

When xAI launched Grok in late 2023, Elon Musk promised it would be a kind of ChatGPT without bindings. According to the businessman, the chatbot accesses information in real time and does not interfere in order to give only politically correct answers.

For now, access to Grok is limited to users who subscribe to X Premium+, the social network’s most expensive subscription based on Twitter’s old Blue program. It costs $16 per month and provides greater reach to users’ posts and is ad-free.

The integration of Grok into X (Twitter) was seen by Elon Musk as an attempt to increase the company’s revenue. Especially after the scandals, due to which many advertisers left the platform. As for the opening of its source code, the businessman did not specify what day this week it will take place. So we’ll have to wait to find out exactly when this will be made official. Let’s not forget that a millionaire has repeatedly did not meet promised deadlines to launch products or services related to their companies.

As for Grok, it was recently revealed that Elon Musk is trying to raise new funds to expand his development. January report Financial Times It turned out that the tycoon was in contact with potential investors to raise some money. 6 billion dollars designed for xAI. In particular, he would appeal to wealthy families in Hong Kong and sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East.