Grok, the AI tool available to paying customers on X, generated another fake news story based on jokes Monday. And while this latest story isn’t as dire as last week’s inaccurate “news” that Iran had launched an attack on Israel, it still proves Grok has a long way to go before it’ll ever be a … Read more
Social network X is rolling out access to xAI’s Grok chatbot to Premium tier subscribers after Elon Musk announced the expansion to more paid users last month. The company said on its support page that only Premium and Premium+ users can interact with the chatbot in select regions. Last year, after Musk’s xAI announced Grok, … Read more
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday: “Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles,” read the headline. Captured trending on X on April 4, 2024. Credit: Mashable screenshot This would certainly be a worrying world news development. Earlier that week, Israel had conducted an … Read more
Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot that was previously available only to Premium+ subscribers on X, is rolling out to a wider audience. On Tuesday the X CEO announced the AI assistant will be available to Premium subscribers “later this week”. Tweet may have been deleted Previously Grok was only available to X users paying for … Read more
Following Elon Musk’s xAI’s move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the company formerly known as Twitter will soon offer the Grok chatbot to more paying subscribers. In a post on X, Musk announced Grok will become available to Premium subscribers this week, … Read more
Elon Musk’s xAI released its Grok large language model as “open source” over the weekend. The billionaire clearly hopes to set his company at odds with rival OpenAI, which, despite its name, is not particularly open. But does releasing the code for something like Grok actually contribute to the AI development community? Yes and no. … Read more
Twitter/X’s AI chatbot Grok is now open source. In a better timeline, I wouldn’t have to know any of those words. Last Monday, Twitter/X owner and xAI founder Elon Musk announced that Grok would soon go open source, making its source code freely available for anyone to access and modify. Now the company has acted … Read more
Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the base code of Grok AI model, but without any training code. The company described it as the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Expert model” on GitHub. In a blog post, xAI said that the model wasn’t tuned for any particular application such as using it for conversations. The company noted that … Read more
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On March 11th, Elon Musk said xAI would open source its AI chatbot Grok, and now an open release is available on GitHub. This will allow researchers and developers to build on the model and impact how xAI updates Grok in the future as it competes with rival tech from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others. … Read more
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter recapping noteworthy happenings in tech over the past few days. This week, TechCrunch viewed leaked documents out of SpaceX showing some questionable practices related to employee stock options. X CEO Elon Musk announced that he would open source Grok, X’s AI-powered chatbot meant to … Read more