Elon Musk’s xAI has madean older version of its AI model Grok— specifically, themodel weightsused to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face.
“The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Muskwrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.”
AI engineer Tim Kelloggdescribedthe Groklicenseas “custom with some anti-competitive terms.”
Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which in turnrecently merged with xAI), has created considerable controversy this year, particularly after the chatbot seemed to becomeobsessed with “white genocide” conspiracy theories, expressedskepticism about the Holocaust’s death toll, and described itself as “MechaHitler,” leading xAI topublish its system prompts on GitHub.
And while Musk described the latest version, Grok 4, as a “maximally truth-seeking AI,” the modelappears to consult Musk’s social media accountbefore answering controversial questions.
Source: Techcrunch
