Elon Musk's xAI company makes Grok AI open source – Computer – News

xAI has released the weights (parameters) and architecture (network structure) of its large language model called Grok-1. This means that the trained model and its basic design are now publicly available.

Grok-1 is a massive language model with 314 billion parameters, making it one of the largest language models released to date. It uses a mixture of experts architecture, which means that only a portion (25%) of the model weights are activated for a given input, allowing for more efficient calculations.

The version released is the base model Checkpoint, which is pre-trained on a fixed amount of text data but is not fine-tuned for any specific task, such as dialogue or language translation. This means that the model has learned general language representations but has not specialized in a specific application.

By releasing the weights and architecture under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, xAI allows researchers, developers, and enthusiasts to freely use, modify, and distribute Grok-1 for their own purposes, both commercial and non-commercial.

xAI has provided instructions on how to get started using the model in its GitHub repository (github.com/xai-org/grok). This repository contains code and documentation to help users upload and use model weights and structures.

The release of Grok-1 is a major contribution to the field of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence. It provides an opportunity for researchers and developers to study, experiment and build on one of the largest language models available, potentially leading to new insights and developments in NLP.

The open release of Grok-1 by xAI makes the weights and architecture of their state-of-the-art language model publicly available under an open source license, allowing for widespread experimentation and research and development.