Amid the lawsuit against OpenAI about turning into a for-profit and closed company, Elon Musk has announced that he is going to open source Grok this week.
“OpenAI, once a carefully crafted non-profit structure, was replaced by a purely profit-driven CEO and a Board with inferior technical expertise in AGI and AI public policy. The board now has an observer seat reserved solely for Microsoft,” said Tesla CEO Musk.
In the last podcast with Lex Fridman, Elon Musk suggested that he likes the idea of open source AI. “I am generally in favour of open sourcing, like biassed towards open sourcing.”
Musk further adds that the whole idea of him founding OpenAI was about open sourcing AI. He highlighted his discussion with Larry Page, the former CEO of Google, who was Musk’s friend then. “I sat in his house and talked about AI safety, and Larry did not care about AI safety at all.”
“The ‘open’ in OpenAI is all about open source,” said Musk, highlighting that the company has become a closed source for maximum profit company, which according to him is “not good karma.”
Comparing the current stance of OpenAI with its original mission, Musk in an interview said, “I mean, this would be like, let’s say you funded an organisation to save the Amazon rainforest, and instead, they became a lumber company and chopped down the forest and sold it for money.”
