This week, xAI will open source Grok

by 0xedbon 3/11/24, 8:49 AMwith 52 comments
by bathtub365on 3/11/24, 9:54 AM

Good luck to the xAI employees who just learned that they are open sourcing their product this week.

by pityJukeon 3/11/24, 9:32 AM

Alex Heath from The Verge alleged that Grok is just tuned LLaMa [0]. I wonder what will be revealed!

[0]: https://www.threads.net/@alexheath/post/C0pEidVp-1U

by polygamous_baton 3/11/24, 9:26 AM

Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”?

by armcaton 3/11/24, 12:48 PM

"Open source" or "open weight"? Because there is a distinction. Many have previously provided open weights (or what they call "open model" now): Mistral, LLaMA, Falcon, etc. There are not many open "source" LLMs out there that bring true value to business and academia.

by Reubendon 3/11/24, 10:26 AM

Has anyone benchmarked Grok against other models? The LLMSYS benchmarks, which I trust most, don't have it. And their own reported results are good but nothing amazing since it doesn't seem to surpass GPT4 or Claude 3.

by crimsoneeron 3/11/24, 4:45 PM

God, the replies to that tweet are deranged.

by quyleanhon 3/11/24, 9:23 AM

Yeah. So the remaining concern is license. I hope it won’t be similar to Llama.

by gardenhedgeon 3/11/24, 9:27 AM

tidbit: Oracle have an OpenGrok project under active development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGrok

by fabiofzeroon 3/11/24, 2:39 PM

...and nobody will care.

by blitzaron 3/11/24, 9:27 AM

This week, @xAI will open source Grok

It's like that glorious week in 2018 when we got full self driving.