Musk to ‘open source’ his Grok chatbot to tackle rival ChatGPT
- March 13, 2024
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Musk to ‘open source’ his Grok chatbot to tackle rival ChatGPT
Subject: Science and tech
Section: Awareness in IT and computers
Context:
- Elon Musk said he would make his Grok chatbot, a rival to ChatGPT, open source as his feud with OpenAI deepens.
About Grok chatbot:
- Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, based on a large language model (LLM).
- The chatbot is advertised as “having a sense of humor” and direct access to Twitter (X).
What are large language models (LLMs)?
- Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced AI systems designed to understand and generate human-like language.
- They use vast amounts of data to learn patterns and relationships in language, enabling them to answer questions, create text, translate languages, and perform various language tasks.
‘Open source’ chatbots:
- An open-source chatbot is software that has its original code available to everyone.
- Users can tweak this code depending on their needs and preferences.
- One can find these source codes on websites like GitHub and use them to build one’s chatbots.
Source: TH