Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the bottom code of Grok AI mannequin, however with none coaching code. The corporate described it because the “314 billion parameter Combination-of-Knowledgeable mannequin” on GitHub.
In a weblog put up, xAI mentioned that the mannequin wasn’t tuned for any explicit software akin to utilizing it for conversations. The corporate famous that Grok-1 was skilled on a “customized” stack with out specifying particulars. The mannequin is licensed underneath Apache License 2.0, which allows business use circumstances.
Final week, Musk famous on X that xAI meant to open-source the Grok mannequin this week. The corporate launched Grok in a chatbot kind final yr, accessible to Premium+ customers of X social community. Notably, the chatbot may entry a number of the X information, however the open-source mannequin doesn’t embody connections to the social community.
Many notable corporations have open-sourced a few of their AI fashions together with Meta’s LLaMa, Mistral, Falcon, and AI2. In February, Google additionally launched two new open fashions referred to as Gemma2B and Gemma7B.
Some AI-powered instrument makers are already speaking about utilizing Grok of their options. Perplexity CEO Arvind Srinivas posted on X that the corporate will fine-tune Grok for conversational search and make it accessible to Professional customers.
Musk has been in a authorized battle with OpenAI and sued the corporate earlier this month over the “betrayal” of the nonprofit AI purpose. Since then, he has referred to as out OpenAI and Sam Altman on X a number of occasions.
