Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older model of its AI mannequin Grok — particularly, the mannequin weights used to form Grok 2.5 — obtainable on the open supply platform Hugging Face.
“The @xAI Grok 2.5 mannequin, which was our greatest mannequin final 12 months, is now open supply,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “might be made open supply in about 6 months.”
AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “customized with some anti-competitive phrases.”
Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which in flip just lately merged with xAI), has created appreciable controversy this 12 months, notably after the chatbot appeared to grow to be obsessive about “white genocide” conspiracy theories, expressed skepticism concerning the Holocaust’s demise toll, and described itself as “MechaHitler,” main xAI to publish its system prompts on GitHub.
And whereas Musk described the newest model, Grok 4, as a “maximally truth-seeking AI,” the mannequin seems to seek the advice of Musk’s social media account earlier than answering controversial questions.
