This week, xAI will open source Grok

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

Alex Heath from The Verge alleged that Grok is just tuned LLaMa [0]. I wonder what will be revealed!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@alexheath&#x2F;post&#x2F;C0pEidVp-1U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@alexheath&#x2F;post&#x2F;C0pEidVp-1U</a>

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

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

Has anyone benchmarked Grok against other models? The LLMSYS benchmarks, which I trust most, don&#x27;t have it. And their own reported results are good but nothing amazing since it doesn&#x27;t seem to surpass GPT4 or Claude 3.

God, the replies to that tweet are <i>deranged</i>.

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

tidbit: Oracle have an OpenGrok project under active development:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenGrok" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenGrok</a>

...and nobody will care.

This week, @xAI will open source Grok<p>It&#x27;s like that glorious week in 2018 when we got full self driving.