xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code

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

Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups ‘Benefiting Humanity’

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup to give itself an unusual corporate structure that, on paper, prioritizes the public good alongside its profits, following in the footsteps of OpenAI and Anthropic. … Read more

Grok Gets Some Competition, ChatGPT Gets Depressed, and More of the Top AI News Stories This Week

Image: Maurice NORBERT (Shutterstock) What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry—is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations’ relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if … Read more

Elon Musk and Other AI Doomers Cause Meltdown

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview As governments fumble for a regulatory approach to AI, everybody in the tech world seems to have an opinion about what that approach should … Read more

Elon Musk Needs to Create the Final AI Enterprise

Headlines This WeekThe Pentagon desires to beef up its automated drone hordes with some AI. File that beneath Issues That Will Preserve You Up At Night time. OpenAI has admitted that AI textual content detectors usually don’t work. Cool. As fears of AI-fueled political manipulation develop, Google has introduced that any political advertisements hosted on … Read more