Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its personal model of ChatGPT.
That seems to be the case, no less than, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday night teasing the AI mannequin xAI has been quietly growing. Known as Grok — a reputation xAI trademarked just lately — the mannequin solutions questions conversationally, probably drawing on a information base just like that used to coach ChatGPT and different comparable text-generating fashions (e.g. Meta’s Llama 2).
Like ChatGPT, Grok additionally has web shopping capabilities, Musk stated, enabling it to look the web for up-to-date details about particular matters.
Properly, most matters.
Musk implied Grok will refuse to reply sure queries of a extra delicate nature, like “Inform me the right way to make cocaine, step-by-step.” Judging by a screenshot, the mannequin solutions that exact query a bit extra wryly than ChatGPT; it’s not clear if it’s a canned reply or if the system is, actually — as Musk asserts in a tweet — “designed to have somewhat extra humor in its responses.”
Early Friday, Musk stated that xAI would launch its first AI mannequin — presumably Grok — to a “choose group” on Saturday, November 4. However in a follow-up tweet tonight, Musk stated all subscribers to X’s just lately launched Premium Plus plan, which prices $16 per thirty days for ad-free entry to X, will get entry to Grok “as soon as it’s out of early beta.”
As quickly because it’s out of early beta, xAI’s Grok system will likely be accessible to all X Premium+ subscribers
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023
Little’s recognized about Grok thus far — or xAI’s broader analysis initiatives, for that matter.
In September, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, a self-described shut pal of Musk, stated that xAI had signed a contract to coach its AI fashions on Oracle’s cloud. However xAI itself hasn’t revealed something about these AI fashions’ interior workings — or, certainly, what types of duties they’ll accomplish.
Musk introduced the launch of xAI in July with the formidable aim of constructing AI to “perceive the true nature of the universe.” The corporate, led by Musk and veterans of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Analysis, Microsoft Analysis, Tesla and the College of Toronto, is suggested by Dan Hendrycks, the director on the Heart for AI Security, an AI analysis nonprofit, and collaborates with X and different corporations in Musk’s stead, together with Tesla.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson in April, Musk stated that he wished to construct what he known as a “maximum-truth-seeking AI.” Is Grok this AI? Maybe — or it’s a step towards one thing even larger.
“In some essential respects, it (xAI’s new mannequin) is the perfect that at present exists,” Musk was quoted as saying in a tweet Friday afternoon.
Musk’s AI ambitions have grown for the reason that billionaire’s cut up with ChatGPT developer OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever a number of years in the past. As OpenAI’s focus shifted from open supply analysis to primarily industrial initiatives, Musk grew disillusioned — and aggressive — with the corporate on whose board he sat. Musk resigned from the OpenAI board in 2018, extra just lately chopping off the corporate’s entry to Twitter knowledge after arguing that OpenAI wasn’t paying sufficient for the privilege.