Elon Musk ups ante as he goes against ChatGPT, Google's Gemini in AI race

In a move to escalate the ongoing AI battle and beat Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, tech billionaire Elon Musk has released the raw code of his artificial intelligence chatbot.

The NYTimes reported Sunday that Musk’s Grok AI, a product from xAI, the company the Tesla chief founded last year, is built in line with science-fiction novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

xAI is a separate entity from X. However, the artificial intelligence’s tech has been integrated into the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, and is trained based on what users post.

He did the same with X’s code last year. He released its code, but hasn't updated it since then.

By releasing the code of his AI, Musk, who co-founded Open AI with Sam Altman, has further intensified the debate about how this tech can be made safe — or maybe he has opened it up to be misused, time will tell.

“Still work to do, but this platform is already by far the most transparent & truth-seeking (not a high bar tbh),” Musk said Sunday in response to a comment on open sourcing X’s recommendation algorithm.

Musk, earlier this month, sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that they had breached their "founding agreement" and violated their non-profit mission. Open AI termed the lawsuit “incoherent”.

Musk is now advocating for OpenAI to make its research open-source, remove Microsoft from GPT-4, and prevent Altman and Microsoft from benefiting from the company.