TL;DR
- Elon Musk has announced the opening of the source code for Grok AI.
- The GROK token has experienced a surprising increase of 90%, reaching $0.01831 in just 12 hours.
- The legal dispute between Musk and OpenAI focuses on foundational principles and funding.
Elon Musk, founder of xAI, has announced the decision to make the source code of his new AI public amid an ongoing legal dispute against OpenAI. Musk states that this measure aims to challenge OpenAI’s closed model of ChatGPT, indicating that Grok will be open source starting this week. Following these announcements, the GROK token has surged by 90% in the past few hours.
At the time of writing this article, GROK is trading at $0.01831 after a 90% growth in a span of 12 hours. The project’s declared market capitalization is around $121 million, with a circulation of 6.3 billion tokens. The volume has also increased by 393%, reaching $62.2 million.
This week, @xAI will open source Grok
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2024
Musk’s decision to open Grok AI to the community has generated a mostly positive response among users, who praise the initiative. In an exchange on the X platform, a user suggested that OpenAI should follow the same path, to which Musk responded by calling OpenAI a “lie.”
The legal dispute between Musk and OpenAI began on February 29, when Musk filed a lawsuit alleging a violation of OpenAI’s foundational agreement as a nonprofit organization. Musk argues that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft goes against the original principles of the agreement to advance open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity.
Principle Dispute Between Grok and OpeanAI
The nearly $3 billion investment by Microsoft in OpenAI by the end of 2023 adds a financial nuance to the dispute. In his lawsuit, Musk urges OpenAI to return to its initial open-source principles and requests a court order to stop the for-profit exploitation of AGI technology.
However, after filing the lawsuit, OpenAI executives revealed emails sent by Musk in which he seemingly agreed with the company’s transformation into a for-profit entity.
Musk’s decision to make the source code of Grok AI public aligns with his requests in the lawsuit against OpenAI to advance open-source AGI for the benefit of humanity. Elon’s AI, unlike ChatGPT, can access real-time information through the X platform and respond to more controversial questions that some AI systems reject.
Access to the AI chatbot requires a verified account on the X platform. In comparisons, it is mentioned that Grok AI, powered by the Grok-1 language model, surpasses ChatGPT-3.5 but does not perform as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 model.
