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Why Elon Musk Had to Open Source Grok, His Answer to ChatGPT


Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.

After suing OpenAI this month, alleging the company has become too closed, Elon Musk says he will release his “truth-seeking” answer to ChatGPT, the chatbot Grok, for anyone to download and use. Having accused his OpenAI cofounders of reneging on a promise to give away the company’s artificial intelligence earlier this month, Musk may have felt he had to open source his own chatbot to show that he is committed to that vision. Tests by WIRED and others quickly showed that although Grok can adopt a provocative style, it is not hugely biased one way or another —perhaps revealing the challenge of aligning AI models consistently with a particular viewpoint.

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