Elon Musk has officially revealed his open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. On its website Sunday (March 17), Musk's xAI stated, "We are making the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model, available. Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that was trained from scratch by xAI. " Last week, the billionaire announced his plans to release an open-source version of the AI chatbot, Grok, which was introduced in 2023. This decision followed Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, an artificial intelligence giant that he helped establish. Musk accused the company of deviating from its mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity and instead prioritizing profitability. Although Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI, he stepped down from the company's board in 2018. Musk's lawsuit argued that OpenAI's website still claims to be dedicated to ensuring that AGI (artificial general intelligence) "benefits all of humanity. " However, in reality, it has become a closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, the world's largest technology company. OpenAI responded by stating that it will ask a judge to dismiss Musk's lawsuit. In a blog post, the company reaffirmed its commitment to a mission of ensuring that AGI benefits humanity.

OpenAI also mentioned the need for more resources to develop AGI and stated that Musk and the company agreed in 2017 that a for-profit entity would be necessary to obtain those resources. Legal experts have suggested that Musk may face challenges in court. Attorney Seth Kugler, who specializes in AI and corporate governance, stated that it would be difficult for Musk to prove that OpenAI abandoned its original mission by licensing GPT-4 and keeping certain elements proprietary. Kugler explained that in order to demonstrate a breach, Musk would need to establish that GPT-4 is an example of artificial general intelligence, which refers to an AI capable of performing any task as well as or better than a human. This includes the ability to learn new tasks beyond its initial training, essentially serving as a high-level substitute for human intelligence. For comprehensive coverage of AI news, consider subscribing to the daily AI Newsletter from PYMNTS.