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Twitter/X's ChatGPT rival Grok is now open source. Here's how to get it.
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Twitter/X's AI chatbot Grok is now open source. In a better timeline, I wouldn't have to know any of those words.
Last Monday, Twitter/X owner and xAI founder Elon Musk announced that Grok would soon go open source, making its source code freely available for anyone to access and modify. Now the company has acted on that plan, releasing Grok-1's base model weights and network architecture on GitHub.
"░W░E░I░G░H░T░S░I░N░B░I░O░," the official Grok Twitter/X account posted, mimicking a format frequently used by spam bots claiming to share pornographic images on the platform.
In a brief blog post announcing the release, Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI stated that the model being released is from when Grok-1 was in its "pre-training phrase" in Oct. 2023. So while this base model has been trained on "a large amount of text data," it hasn't been fine-tuned to any specific task. This means you're probably better off continuing to use Grok on Twitter/X if you just want to play with a Musk-approved chatbot (and are prepared to shell out your hard-earned cash to become an X Premium+ subscriber).
For those more interested in toying with code, Grok's weights and architecture have been released under an Apache 2.0 licence, meaning anyone is free to modify and redistribute them. In an apparent reference to 1989 sci-fi comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the code of conduct accompanying Grok's release reads only: "Be excellent to each other."
"Grok is a 314-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI," wrote xAI.
Grok was uploaded to GitHub by an account apparently belonging to AI researcher and xAI employee Igor Babuschkin. All you need to do is head over to the website, hit the green " Code" button, and select the format you want it in.
Musk has been pushing OpenAI to go open source
This move comes just weeks after Musk sued Grok competitor OpenAI for not being open source. Musk previously sat on the ChatGPT creator's board of directors, as well as invested several million dollars into the AI research company. Now the billionaire has accused OpenAI of breach of contract, contending that there was a "Founding Agreement" that its artificial general intelligence would be open source, and that the organisation would be run as a non-profit "for the benefit of humanity."
OpenAI has since refuted Musk's claim, stating that no such agreement existed. It further published emails demonstrating that Musk knew of and agreed with OpenAI's plans to become proprietary rather than open source, as well as its intention to become a for-profit organisation.
"As we discussed a for-profit structure in order to further the mission, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or he wanted full control," wrote OpenAI, noting that Musk stated OpenAI had zero chance of success without raising several billion dollars per year.
"Elon left OpenAI, saying there needed to be a relevant competitor to Google/DeepMind and that he was going to do it himself… When he left in late February 2018, he told our team he was supportive of us finding our own path to raising billions of dollars."
Apparently Musk isn't quite as supportive as OpenAI expected, if his lawsuit is anything to go by.
when you cant beat them give it for free.
ReplyDeleteain’t free for users. You still have to join Twitter Premium.
DeleteThe source code is freely available to everyone on GitHub. If you want to use the fully trained Grok-1 variant, you need to access it on X Premium, and it’s only available in the U.S., I believe…
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DeleteThe real issue is that Elon does NOT grok!!!
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DeleteOh wait! Let me go shell out a few bucks for this…I’ll get on that right about sometime between never and X’s bankruptcy.
ReplyDeleteThe source code is free. And while Twitter was heading straight towards bankruptcy BEFORE Elon Musk bought it, losing ca 1.5 billion in 2020 and 2021, it is looking a lot better now.
DeleteWhile X has lost some $1.3 billion in advertising revenue from the largest advertisers, Elon Musk has at the same time cut over $3 billion in yearly costs(cutting the number of employees, cutting the number of offices, renegotiating rent prices and cloud server prices among other things). Also, small business advertising and political advertising is record high.
how is it looking better? Got any sources for these claims? Because I bet you don't.
DeleteAs for renegotiating rent agreements, last I checked he just stopped paying rent and is in court over it. You also forgot the billion a year in interest hes paying on the loan.
Twitter was only profitable 2 out of the previous 12 years before Elon Musk bought the platform. And the $3 billion cut in costs, record high small business advertising and political advertising, etc is info that X have themselves released.
DeleteMy number $1.5 billion in losses for 2020 and 2021 was a little imprecise, the correct number was $1.357 billion.
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im aware of their publicly released profits from before musk, so show me the evidence of after musk took over. And actual evidence, not just musk going 'trust me bro'
DeleteThe source is the same as before, the platform itself.
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So unlike OpenAI, Elon Musk is keeping his word.
ReplyDeleteOpenAI never once said the source would be open. So please tell us all what word did they not keep to?
DeleteThat’s false. OpenAI was founded as a non-profit Open Source organization… and that’s where the OPEN in the name OpenAI comes from.
DeleteNow it has become a for-profit, closed source company… without even compensating the initial donors, like Elon Musk(the founder and the largest donor) who donated around 100 million of the initial 140 million.
Elon Musk is taking this to court, and I suspect OpenAI is going to get crushed.
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DeleteOpenAi is not going to get crushed, hence why they released the emails where even Elon agreed with their growth plans. You saying something is false doesn’t make it so, nor are you even correct about where the OPEN comes from. The Open literally never referred to open source 🤦
DeleteEven your compensation claims are easily disprovable. Again, they released the emails maybe you can have Grok read them to you 😂 clown 🤡
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DeleteThe Elon Musk/OpenAI emails were widely misrepresented in the media. Many of the emails were emails addressed TO Elon Musk and not from him, while the media would present it as if it was him who wrote parts of the emails that were addressed TO him.
And no, Elon Musk certainly never agreed to OpenAIs plans. He as the founder of OpenAI and the biggest investor, was open to the idea of associating OpenAI with Tesla, having OpenAI help work with the FSD system while having Tesla help finance OpenAI. He certainly did not agree to OpenAI taking the money he donated, starting a private company of their own and then selling their IP to Microsoft.
That is comparable to starting a charity, collecting 140 million dollars in donations(with most of it coming from Elon Musk), then running away with the money to start your own for-profit business... it's pretty obvious, that's not the way you legally do business. Elon Musk has a very strong case against OpenAI.
It sucks! He lost his bet on the twitter corpus now want to get OpenAI’s models and weights. Cry baby little snowflake
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Deletecan’t verify anything can you? They closed third party verification didn’t they?
DeleteThere was no third party "verification" on most of these variables before either, except what was available in context of the company being a publicly traded company. That X is the 5th most visited and #1 linked to website in the world is not information from X but from 3rd parties.
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