Source: AFP
Elon Musk said on Monday that he will make his chatbot Grok, a rival to ChatGPT, open source as his feud with OpenAI deepens.
The multibillionaire unveiled Grok late last year as he tries to catch up with OpenAI, which he helped found in 2015 with CEO Sam Altman, providing seed funding in its early days.
He left OpenAI a few years later, and last week filed a shock lawsuit against the company for violating its original nonprofit mission to make AI research available to everyone.
“This week, @xAI will open Grok,” Musk said in a post on X, entering one of Silicon Valley’s fiery philosophical debates about the future of artificial intelligence.
Technology investors are increasingly in divided camps over the development of artificial intelligence and how the technology should proceed.
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On the one hand, companies like Meta support an open source system in which researchers and other companies can access the inner workings of the technology to develop new products or innovations.
Meta, IBM and dozens of startups and researchers formed an alliance in December advocating for more open and collaborative artificial intelligence, fearing that regulators will block the way to that method.
On the other hand, OpenAI and Google support a higher level of secrecy in order to protect the technology from bad actors and earn money to recoup the high computing costs necessary to build their flagship tools.
Shortly after filing his lawsuit, Musk said in a post that he would drop his case if OpenAI changed its name to ClosedAI.
OpenAI argues that Musk’s lawsuit, as well as his embrace of open source development, is little more than a case of sour grapes after he left the company.
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“Seeing the remarkable technological advances that OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself,” OpenAI said in a court filing.
“Musk purports to be wearing this suit for humanity, when the truth — even apparent from Musk’s contradictory pleading — is that he is wearing it to advance his own commercial interests.”
Musk is one of the few investors in the world with deep enough pockets to compete with OpenAI, Google or Meta in AI.
Building an AI model on the same scale as these companies comes at a huge cost in computing power, infrastructure and know-how.
Source: AFP