Why Elon Musk’s AI company ‘open-sourcing’ Grok matters — and why it doesn’t

Why Elon Musk’s AI company ‘open-sourcing’ Grok matters — and why it doesn’t

Image Credits: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto / Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI released its Grok large language model as “open source” over the weekend. The billionaire clearly hopes to set his company at odds with rival OpenAI, which despite its name is not particularly open. But does releasing the code for something like Grok actually contribute to …

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Musk’s xAI Unveils Open-Source AI Chatbot Grok-1

Musk’s xAI Unveils Open-Source AI Chatbot Grok-1

Elon Musk has officially unveiled his open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. “We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model,” Musk’s xAI said on its website Sunday (March 17). “Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.” The billionaire had announced last week that he was going to …

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Meet ‘Groq,’ the AI Chip That Leaves Elon Musk’s Grok in the Dust

Meet ‘Groq,’ the AI Chip That Leaves Elon Musk’s Grok in the Dust

Groq, an AI chip company, wants everyone to forget about Elon Musk’s snarky chatbot with nearly the same name, Grok. Lightning-fast demos from Groq went viral this weekend, making current versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and even Grok look sluggish. Groq claims to provide “the world’s fastest large language models,” and third-party tests are saying that …

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8kun Launches Its Own AI Chatbot

8kun Launches Its Own AI Chatbot

Every website on the internet is currently trying to stick an AI-powered chatbot on its homepage, a trend that extends even to 8kun—the far-right image board website that is known for being a toxic cess pool of depraved and immoral content. NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future Tech Jim Watkins, who created the …

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