Not open source, but Musk’s xAI makes Grok-1 AI available for developers

Elon Musk owned xAI startup has made its Grok-1 AI model available for researchers and developers on GitHub. Earlier, Musk through a post on X (formerly Twitter) announced that his artificial intelligence startup xAI would open-source its ChatGPT alternative Grok.

In a press note released by xAI on March 17, the company announced that it is releasing “the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1,” which is “a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model.” The company added the weights and the architecture is being released under the Apache 2.0 licence, which permits distribution of licensed works, modifications under different terms than the original work without the source code.