Elon Musk Announced xAI Grok is to be Released This Week

Elon Musk, The CEO of Tesla has announced that xAI will open-source “Grok”, this week. He made this announcement on Monday on X(Formerly Twitter).

Grok is a generative AI model developed by xAI and its beta version is released on 4 November 2023 for a small group. xAI launched this AI model to a small group of Premium+ subscribers of social media platform X(Formerly Twitter).

With their release of the beta version, xAI claims that their aim to release Grok is to ”Gather feedback and ensure we are building AI tools that maximally benefit all of humanity. We believe that it is important to design AI tools that are useful to people of all backgrounds and political views. We also want to empower our users with our AI tools, subject to the law. Our goal with Grok is to explore and demonstrate this approach in public.”- xAI.

“Empower research and innovation: We want Grok to serve as a powerful research assistant for anyone, helping them to quickly access relevant information, process data, and come up with new ideas.”- They added.

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With its release Grok is turning out to be a competitor of the OpeniAI model ChatGPT. Recently in this month, Musk filed a lawsuit against Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. In his suit musk claimed that OpenAI has abandoned its startup goal. The initial goal of the model was regarding the human benefits but now it is working to gain profit.

Musk’s interest in generative AI can be seen when he said “he felt uncomfortable growing the carmaker into a leader in AI and robotics unless he had at least 25% voting control of the company.”

As per the resources, musk was previously enrolled with OpenAI but later in 2018, he made an exit from OpenAI Saying he had to focus on the project of Tesla. Even when he filed a lawsuit against Chatgpt, OpenAI said that “Musk was looking for “absolute control” by merging it with Tesla.”