Musk Releases Large Chatbot Model Grok As Open Source, But Questions Remain
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Elon Musk's XAI released its Grok chatbot model as "open source" to compete with OpenAI's closed models like ChatGPT.
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Releasing Grok's code has some value but does not make it truly "open" - ML models cannot be audited like traditional code.
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Grok is a large, 314B parameter model competitive with last-gen models, but very resource-intensive to run.
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It's unclear if this is the latest Grok model or if Musk released it just to get back at OpenAI.
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More info on Grok's training data/process would be needed to call it fully "open source" - this release alone is not a game-changer.