Do you remember when at the beginning of this year 2023 strong rumors began to spread that Elon Musk was going to create its own Artificial Intelligence to compete against ChatGPT? Well, that investment in thousands of video cards was real: here it is Grokthe system that will seek to return the millionaire to his desired position.
In the past already we have documented the chronicle how the tycoon was once part of OpenAI, the company that would end up shaping ChatGPT. At some point he and Sam Altmancurrent CEO of the company, were great friends.
But apparently Elon Musk’s obsessions and his intention to become the top leader of the project ended up generating such a level of disagreement that he ended up being expelled from OpenAI with everything and his money.
Now Musk, still the owner of Tesla Motors and halfway through his tumultuous career as majority owner of X, formerly Twitter, has presented the letter that would represent his revenge.
This is Grok: Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence to take revenge on ChatGPT
On the night of Friday, November 3, 2023, Elon Musk used your official X accountformerly Twitter, to reveal to the world the existence of Grok, the Artificial Intelligence that he developed with the xIA team.
Along with the revelation, Musk noted that this first generative AI model would have already been launched in its beta phase to a “select group” of X Premium+ subscribers and noted that “in some important aspects, it is the best that currently exists.”
As soon as it’s out of early beta, xAI’s Grok system will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023
Announcing Grok!
Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use…
— xAI (@xai) November 5, 2023
For its part, the official account of xAI on the night of November 4 released more details around Grok, revealing that he is a Large Language Model (LLM) which can interpret a message with up to 25,000 characters.
In itself, this Artificial Intelligence would have been trained not only on The Pile’s ubiquitous LLM training data set, but also used an important data set from X, thereby confirming the September 2023 reports.
Grok would then have an input and output character limit almost 6 times greater than ChatGPT, so it could theoretically comprise longer individual messages than those currently enabled for the OpenAI platform.
At the same time, it promises to later integrate functions such as image and voice recognition, image generation and integration with third-party APIs. In addition, all AI would run natively in Tesla Motors cars.
Using X as a base seems like it would turn her into an AI with a penchant for news information. But it’s too early to know how all this will turn out.