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Elon Musk vows to make his ChatGPT competitor Grok open source


A notable move given the promise comes just weeks after Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company he co-founded.

The move would be a significant symbol of Musk putting his “money where his mouth is,” rhetorically speaking, after filing a lawsuit against his former company OpenAI and its leadership for failing to live up to the “open” implications of its name. The exact date or the detail to which Grok will be open-sourced remains unclear (whether it is fully open source for commercial purposes, research only, and whether its full weights and balances will be released, for instance). The model has access to real-time user-generated posts and information, which enables it to provide answers about the most recent topics of interest, be it a political event or a football match, with a touch of wit and sometimes even sarcasm.

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