Elon Musk wants you to use his AI amidst OpenAI's legal battle, now launching Grok-1
The billionaire has been having exchange of words against OpenAI.
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Key notes
- Elon Musk released Grok-1 AI language model, open source under Apache 2.0.
- Grok-1, with 314 billion parameters, was trained without specific task fine-tuning.
- While freely usable, it lacks real-time access to X content, according to online reports.
Elon Musk, the head of X, has now made the Grok-1 AI language model open source. According to xAI, they are sharing the “base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1” under the Apache 2.0 license.
“This is the raw base model checkpoint from the Grok-1 pre-training phase, which concluded in October 2023. This means that the model is not fine-tuned for any specific application, such as dialogue,” the announcement reads.
xAI claims that Grok-1 has 314 billion parameters, which was trained on extensive text data without specific task fine-tuning. Folks over at VentureBeat later point out that although the Apache license 2.0 allows for the model’s free use, it will not have automatic access to X content in real time.
The billionaire owner of Tesla has been in a back-and-forth exchange of words (and legal battles) with GPT-4 maker, OpenAI. The Microsoft-backed company was accused of being “closed” and heavily influenced by its number-one financial supporter.
Musk later sued OpenAI, saying that its partnership with Microsoft for AI development is intended for profit and the company is guilty of breaching its contract. In return, OpenAI said that the claim was “fictitious,” filing a legal response in a San Francisco court.
