Elon Musk has been extremely critical of ChatGPT maker OpenAI to deviate from their mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity and take a path of profit. He advocated that artificial intelligence (AI) should be accessible to everyone, and has now announced that his startup AI. xAI will open the source Grok chatbot this week
“This week, @xAI will open Grok,” Musk said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
In the simplest words, the open-sourcing of a software, such as a chatbot, means that the software projects are redistributable as all the source code is accessible to everyone. One of the advantages of having open source software is that it provides flexibility to a business to have multiple ways to solve a problem instead of waiting for an internal team to provide a solution.
“OpenAI is a lie”
Meanwhile, one user suggested that OpenAI should do the same.
“OpenAI should do the same if they are ‘open,'” the user said. Musk replied, “OpenAI is a lie.”
Musk wants AI technology to be open-source
Musk had floated the idea of ​​open-sourcing AI during a podcast in November last year. In a podcast with Lex Fridman, Musk suggested that he likes the idea of ​​open-source AI. “I’m generally in favor of open procurement, like biased towards open procurement,” he said.
His comments came shortly after hers Company AI called xAI has released Grok, its chatbot, which took four months to build. CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman he was quick to take a dig at it and shared a post in which he built it Grok with a single prompt in GPT Builder.
“GPT can save a lot of effort:” he said.
Musk obviously didn’t like the jab and responded with a lengthy message saying “GPT-4 is funnier as a screen door on a submarine.”
