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Grokking X.ai’s Grok—Real Advance or Just Real Troll?
IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org
Last weekend, X.ai released the world’s largest “open-source” large language model (LLM), Grok-1. At 314 billion parameters, it’s the largest open-source model yet, far exceeding predecessors like Falcon 180B at 180 billion.
That’s impressive, but the timing of X.ai’s release—just a few weeks after Elon Musk, founder of X.ai, filed suit against OpenAI for an alleged lack of openness—raised eyebrows. Is Grok-1 a useful effort to move open-source AI forward, or more of a ploy to prove Musk’s company …
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