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Elon Musk announced Monday that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will make its chatbot, Grok, open-source this week while taking different plaything astatine OpenAI amid his ineligible conflict pinch nan ChatGPT creator.
The tech billionaire and Tesla CEO made nan announcement connected his societal media platform, X, and aft a follower replied that OpenAI should do nan same, Musk wrote, "OpenAI is simply a lie."
Tech mogul and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends an arena during nan Vivatech exertion startups and invention adjacent astatine nan Porte de Versailles accumulation centre successful Paris, connected June 16, 2023. (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Musk's move to make Grok open-source comes little than 2 weeks aft he sued OpenAI — which he co-founded successful 2015 and near successful 2018 — claiming nan institution abandoned its original founding ngo to create open-source artificial wide intelligence exertion for nan use of humanity complete profits.
The lawsuit, which besides names OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman, claims Altman and chap co-founder Greg Brockman primitively approached Musk to make an open-source, non-profit institution and that nan company’s displacement to making money breached that contract.
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Musk claims breach of fiduciary work and unfair business practices against OpenAI and asks for nan company, now backed by Microsoft, to revert to unfastened source.
Sam Altman (L), US entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and laminitis and CEO of artificial intelligence institution OpenAI, and nan company's co-founder and main intelligence Ilya Sutskever, speak together astatine Tel Aviv University successful Tel Aviv connected June 5, 2023. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Altman, Brockman and OpenAI main intelligence Ilya Sutskever pushed backmost against nan suit successful a blog station connected nan company's website past week, penning that they "intend to move to disregard each of Musk's claims.
In their post, OpenAI's leaders revealed communications showing Musk backed nan organization's move to create a for-profit entity and suggested it should merge pinch Tesla.
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Musk's move to make Gronk open-source could springiness nan nationalist free entree to research pinch nan codification down nan exertion and aligns xAI pinch firms specified arsenic Meta and France's Mistral, some of which person open-source AI models.
Google has besides released an AI exemplary called Gemma that extracurricular developers tin perchance manner according to their needs.
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Tech investors including OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of task superior patient Andreessen Horowitz, person been debating astir open-sourcing successful AI since Musk revenge nan suit against nan ChatGPT maker.
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While open-sourcing exertion tin thief velocity up innovations, immoderate experts person warned that open-source AI models could beryllium utilized by terrorists to create chemic weapons aliases moreover create a conscious super-intelligence beyond quality control.
Musk said astatine Britain's AI Safety Summit past twelvemonth that he wanted to found a "third-party referee" that could oversee firms processing AI and sound nan siren if they person concerns.
Seeking an replacement to OpenAI and Google, Musk launched xAI past twelvemonth to create what he said would beryllium a "maximum truth-seeking AI". In December, nan startup rolled retired Grok for Premium+ subscribers of X.
In a podcast section pinch machine intelligence and podcaster Lex Fridman, Musk suggested successful November that he favored nan conception of open-source AI.
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"The name, nan unfastened successful unfastened AI, is expected to mean unfastened source, and it was created arsenic a nonprofit unfastened source. And now it is simply a closed root for maximum profit," Musk said.
FOX Business' Michael Dorgan, Eric Revell and Reuters contributed to this report.
