Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older model of its AI mannequin Grok — particularly, the mannequin weights used to form Grok 2.5 — out there 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 “shall 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 not too long ago merged with xAI), has created appreciable controversy this 12 months, significantly after the chatbot appeared to grow to be obsessive about “white genocide” conspiracy theories, expressed skepticism in regards to the Holocaust’s loss of life 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.
