The move comes after Musk announced last week that Grok would soon be open source, making its source code freely available for anyone to access and modify. The company has now released Grok-1’s base model weights and network architecture on GitHub. The model being released is from when Grok-1 was in its “pre-training phase” in October 2023. While this base model has been trained on a large amount of text data, it hasn’t been fine-tuned to any specific task. This means users are probably better off continuing to use Grok on Twitter/X if they just want to play with a Musk-approved chatbot. However, for those more interested in toying with code, Grok’s weights and architecture have been released under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning anyone is free to modify and redistribute them.
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