xAI has officially open-sourced its AI chatbot Grok, now available on GitHub

As announced by Elon Musk on March 11th, xAI has now officially open-sourced Grok, its artificial intelligence chatbot. The open release is now accessible on GitHub, allowing developers and researchers to use and build upon the model. This move could potentially influence future updates of Grok as xAI competes with other tech giants such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta's Meta Llama, and Google Gemini

The open release includes the base model weights and network architecture of the Grok-1, a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, as per the company's blog post. The model, from an October checkpoint, has not been specifically fine-tuned for any applications, including dialogue.

The release is under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing commercial use, but does not include the training data or real-time data connections to X.