Elon Musk Says Xai Has Open Sourced Grok 2.5

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Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older type of its AI exemplary Grok — specifically, the exemplary weights utilized to style Grok 2.5 —  disposable connected nan unfastened root level Hugging Face.

“The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our champion exemplary past year, is now unfastened source,” Musk wrote connected X. He added that Grok 3 “will beryllium made unfastened root successful astir 6 months.”

AI technologist Tim Kellogg described nan Grok license arsenic “custom pinch immoderate anti-competitive terms.”

Grok, which is prominently featured connected X (which successful move recently merged pinch xAI), has created sizeable contention this year, peculiarly aft nan chatbot seemed to go obsessed pinch “white genocide” conspiracy theories, expressed skepticism astir nan Holocaust’s decease toll, and described itself arsenic “MechaHitler,” starring xAI to publish its strategy prompts connected GitHub.

And while Musk described nan latest version, Grok 4, arsenic a “maximally truth-seeking AI,” nan exemplary appears to consult Musk’s societal media account earlier answering arguable questions.

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