Elon Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot Will Become Open Source

Morrissey Technology – Billionaire Elon Musk will make his Grok chatbot open source. This intention emerged as the feud between Musk and OpenAI heated up.

“This week, @xAI will make Grok open source,” Musk said in a post on X (Twitter).

Grok itself was launched at the end of 2023, when Musk was trying to pursue OpenAI which he helped create in 2015 with his CEO Sam Altman.

Several years after its creation, Musk then left OpenAI. However, last week he filed a lawsuit against OpenAI because he was deemed to be more concerned with the profit side of the business than its initial mission.

Many technology investors have different opinions regarding the development of AI. On the one hand, companies like Meta, support open source systems. In this system, researchers and other companies can access how the technology works to develop products.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, OpenAI and Google support a high level of confidentiality to protect technology from criminals. According to AFP, not long after filing his lawsuit, Musk said that he would drop the case if OpenAI changed its name to ClosedAI. OpenAI argued that Musk’s lawsuit was nothing more than ‘a bad case of leaving the company’.

“Seeing the extraordinary technological progress that OpenAI FOR4D has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself,” said OpenAI.