Elon Musk to make Grok chatbot open-source, taking swipe at OpenAI [Video]

Elon Musk announced Monday that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will make its chatbot, Grok, open-source this week while taking another swing at OpenAI amid his legal battle with the ChatGPT creator.

The tech billionaire and Tesla CEO made the announcement on his social media platform, X, and after a follower replied that OpenAI should do the same, Musk wrote, “OpenAI is a lie.”

Musk’s move to make Grok open-source comes less than two weeks after he sued OpenAI — which he co-founded in 2015 and left in 2018 — claiming the company abandoned its original founding mission to develop open-source artificial general intelligence technology for the benefit of humanity over profits.

The lawsuit, which also names OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman, claims Altman and fellow co-founder Greg Brockman originally approached Musk to make an open-source, non-profit company and that the company’s shift to making money breached that contract. 

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