Musk promises to release the source code of Grok, his artificial intelligence.

 The conversational application is currently only accessible to users of the X Premium+ service. Musk assures that it has been designed to avoid possible ideological biases

The source code of Grok, the conversational artificial intelligence of the social network X will be fully accessible. This has been promised by Elon Musk, current owner of the social network formerly known as Twitter. In a brief message, Musk assures that the source code of the application will be available this week, without giving precise details of the process or if the promise will also include access to the language model and the training material that was used in its creation.

Grok was launched last September as an alternative to ChatGPT for users of the X Premium+ service, which for 16 euros per month gives access to more advanced tools within the social network and limits the amount of advertising received.

According to Musk, this artificial intelligence has been designed to "seek the truth above all" and limit ideological biases that, according to the tycoon, affect the rest of the artificial intelligences on the market, which he describes as trained with "woke" ideology.

One of its supposed advantages over its competitors is that it has access to all the information published in X, although at the moment it is difficult to know if this translates into better responses. Musk has promised that in the future this access will allow Grok to create summaries of very long posts or articles shared on the social network.

Experts who have had access to the tool consider the language model (Grok's "brain," so to speak) to be roughly equivalent to OpenAI's GPT 3.5 model and far from the capabilities of more recent models. In the answers, he tends to use sarcastic language inspired, according to Musk, by the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, but the way he answers the questions, even on topics with a strong ideological charge, does not seem very different from that of other conversational artificial intelligence applications.

ATTACK ON OPENAI

The decision to release Grok's source code is part of the legal battle that Musk has decided to wage against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and the GPT-4 language model.

Musk was one of the founding members of OpenAI, which was initially established as a non-profit organization with the aim of acting as a counterweight to the closed artificial intelligence developments of companies like Google.

Musk abandoned OpenAI after failing in an attempt to take control of it and integrate it into Tesla. Since his departure, Sam Altman, another of OpenAI's founders and its current president, has reorganized the business structure to become a more conventional company, although with a profit cap for investors and still controlled, to some extent, by a non-profit organization.

A few weeks ago, Elon Musk sued the company, considering that these changes have distanced OpenAI from its initial mission of benefiting humanity after signing a multi-million dollar agreement with Microsoft in early 2023.