Musk to Open-Source Chatbot, Takes Aim at OpenAI Amid Legal Fight Over AI Ethics

• Elon Musk announced his AI startup xAI will make its Grok chatbot open-source this week, taking a jab at OpenAI amid his legal battle with the ChatGPT creator

• Musk sued OpenAI claiming the company abandoned its founding mission to develop open-source AI for humanity over profits

• Musk claims OpenAI breached fiduciary duty and asks the Microsoft-backed firm revert to open source; OpenAI plans to dismiss the claims

• Making Grok open-source aligns xAI with firms offering open-source AI models like Meta and Mistral

• Musk suggested he favors open-source AI to counter OpenAI and Google; critics warn open-source AI could empower terrorists or yield uncontrollable super intelligence