Elon Musk takes another swing at OpenAI, makes xAI’s Grok chatbot open-source

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, will open-source its ChatGPT challenger, Grok, following Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI for shifting away from its original non-profit mission. The move aligns xAI with companies like Meta and Mistral, embracing open-source AI models. Musk’s decision comes amid a broader debate among tech investors on open-sourcing AI, balancing innovation acceleration with concerns about potential misuse. Musk, critical of profit-driven AI, founded xAI to create a “maximum truth-seeking AI” and introduced Grok in December. He advocates for third-party oversight in AI development, criticizing OpenAI for transitioning to a closed-source, profit-focused model.

Source – CGTN