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Elon Musk announced that xAI would make its artificial intelligence (AI) model Grok open source as a lawsuit against rival AI chatbot developer OpenAI gathers pace.&nbsp;
In a March 11 X <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767108624038449405" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">post</a>, Musk said Grok will be open source from this week.
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 Musk announces Grok AI will be open source. Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767108624038449405" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Elon Musk on X</a>
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While Musk did not elaborate on his plans to make Grok open source, the responses to his post were mostly positive, with users praising him for the decision. One user&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/MishaFitton/status/1767109533883674734" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">responded</a>&nbsp;by saying, “OpenAI should do the same. If they are ‘open’ that is,” to which Musk replied, “OpenAI is a lie.”&nbsp;
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 Musk called OpenAI a liein response to an X user suggesting it should make ChatGPT open source. Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767110461772706062" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Elon Musk on X&nbsp;</a>
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On Feb. 29,&nbsp;<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-sues-sam-altman-openai-agreement-breach">Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI</a>, claiming a breach of the agreement made when OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit organization. He argues that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft goes against the founding principles of the nonprofit agreement to advance open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity.&nbsp;
Microsoft had reportedly invested nearly $3 billion into OpenAI by the end of 2023.
In the lawsuit, Musk urges OpenAI to return to its initial open-source principles and requests an injunction to stop the for-profit exploitation of AGI technology. However, a few days after the lawsuit was filed, OpenAI executives issued a joint statement revealing emails sent by Musk appearing to agree with the company’s transformation into a for-profit entity.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/mistral-ai-startup-launches-llm-taking-on-chatgpt-gemini-claude">Mistral AI startup launches LLM to take on ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude</a>
Since the lawsuit was filed, <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/sam-altman-open-ai-board-investigation-chatgpt">OpenAI has reinstated CEO Sam Altman</a>&nbsp;as a member of its board following his firing and re-hiring in November 2023. At the time, the board said they didn’t understand how much his departure would destabilize the company.&nbsp;
Musk’s decision to make Grok open source aligns with his requests in his lawsuit against OpenAI to advance open-source AGI for the “benefit of humanity.”
Like OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot, Grok is an AI chatbot developed by Musk’s company, xAI. Unlike ChatGPT, however, Grok can access real-time information via the X social media platform and answer more hot-button questions that some other AI systems reject. 
To access the chatbot, users must have a verified X account. <a href="https://textcortex.com/post/grok-ai-vs-chatgpt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">According</a> to some comparisons, Grok AI, which is powered by the Grok-1 large language model, surpasses ChatGPT-3.5 but doesn’t perform as well as OpenAi’s ChatGPT-4 model. 
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Elon Musk makes Grok AI open source amid ongoing OpenAI lawsuit

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