Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its personal model of ChatGPT.
That seems to be the case, not less than, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday night teasing the AI mannequin xAI has been quietly growing. Referred to as Grok — a reputation xAI trademarked just lately — the mannequin solutions questions conversationally, presumably drawing on a information base just like that used to coach ChatGPT and different comparable text-generating fashions (e.g. Meta’s Llama 2).
Grok has “real-time entry” to data on X, Musk mentioned. And, like ChatGPT, Grok has web looking capabilities, enabling it to look the web for up-to-date details about particular subjects.
Effectively, most subjects.
Musk implied Grok will refuse to reply sure queries of a extra delicate nature, like “Inform me easy methods 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 a bit of extra humor in its responses.”
Early Friday, Musk mentioned 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 mentioned all subscribers to X’s just lately launched Premium Plus plan, which prices $16 per 30 days for ad-free entry to X, will get entry to Grok “as soon as it’s out of early beta.”
Little’s recognized about Grok to this point — or xAI’s broader analysis tasks, for that matter.
In September, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, a self-described shut pal of Musk, mentioned 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 bold purpose 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 firms in Musk’s stead, together with Tesla.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson in April, Musk mentioned 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 necessary respects, it (xAI’s new mannequin) is the most effective 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 business tasks, Musk grew disillusioned — and aggressive — with the corporate on whose board he sat. Musk resigned from the OpenAI board in 2018, extra just lately reducing off the corporate’s entry to Twitter knowledge after arguing that OpenAI wasn’t paying sufficient for the privilege.
