Days after Elon Musk accused OpenAI, Elon Musk is now making Grok AI accessible to the public! What can you expect from the chatbot and what are its amazing features? Let’s get early insights into it.
Highlights:
- Elon Musk announced that Grok, xAI’s state-of-the-art chatbot, will be made open source by this week.
- Currently, the beta version has been rolled out to premium subscribers of X in the USA.
- Programmed and designed to be answerable on several wide range of topics and political subjects.
Grok by xAI is Now Open-Source
Elon Musk has made quite the groundbreaking announcement that Grok AI will be made open-source in March 2024. It was limited to Premium+ subscribers of X (formerly Twitter) earlier, but making code available to everyone is a huge development in the Generative AI domain.
This week, @xAI will open source Grok
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2024
Grok was made by the xAI’s team announced in November 2023. They claim it to be a highly efficient chatbot, designed to answer almost anything and everything. It has been programmed to be witty and satirical in its responses, so it may just be the chatbot for users who love humor.
It takes its knowledge base from X’s real-time knowledge platform. This empowers it to answer almost every question that would have been rejected by several other chatbots in existence. It was designed mainly to garner and provide knowledge on subjects and political views on a highly diverse aspect.
This new AI cahtbot is highly promising in terms of accessing content and topics which has not been possible with the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. In this aspect, it may give high competition to the newly released Anthropic’s Claude 3, which comes with fewer refusals to harmless questions.
Grok’s Architecture and Benchmarks
Grok’s LLM model is powered by its engine, Grok-1. Further training was conducted on one of the model’s prototypes Grok-0 across 33 billion parameters.
Grok had impressive benchmark scores when it was announced in November. Using typical LM benchmarks, this model approaches the capabilities of LLaMA 2 (70B) while utilizing only half of its training resources.
One of the good news for developers is that it also has highly efficient coding and reasoning capabilities. This is demonstrated by its impressive scores on the HumanEval coding task and the MMLU benchmarks, achieving 63.2% and 73% respectively.
In the above image, you can see that Grok-1 has surpassed several well-known models in its compute class. It has surpassed the likes of GPT-3.5 and Inflection 1 in several aspects of coding, math, and reasoning. It only falls behind those models which have been trained with significantly larger data and computational resources such as GPT-4 and Claude 2.
However, don’t let these deviate you from the fact that Grok has immense potential when it comes to going beyond the standard norm for topics. The developer community can’t wait to see how xAI’s challenger to ChatGPT will provide us with humorous content across topics we could never imagine before!
Why Grok is Made Open-Source?
Following Elon Musk’s latest lawsuit against OpenAI and criticisms against Google Gemini’s Image Generation capabilities, the open-sourcing of xAI’s Grok may just be the right step.
Musk criticized OpenAI in his lawsuit claiming that the company had shifted away from its mission of providing its technology for the betterment of humanity. OpenAI has kept GPT-4’s internal design a complete secret as of now. Musk also continued his criticisms by calling OpenAI a lie.
Musk worked for OpenAI but left several years before the well-known ChatGPT was released in late 2022.
The announcement of Grok’s open-sourcing is a part of Elon Musk’s mission to provide a chatbot that doesn’t deviate from major important topics which to some extent can be harmless. It is also a step towards providing developers and tech enthusiasts worldwide a blueprint for the development of their LLMs and the betterment of the tech community.
Conclusion
Widespread access to Grok is what we may exactly need. By having a freely communicating and intelligent chatbot, we have the potential to evolve our insights across a diverse range of topics and humor. Stay tuned for more updates on the world of Generative AI!
