Elon Musk’s xAI and OpenAI go Meta’s way, to give away tech behind AI chatbots

Elon Musk’s xAI and OpenAI seem to be going in the same direction. Both the AI companies have announced open-sourcing their advanced AI models. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the release of two new open-weight AI models, Tesla CEO revealed that his AI company will also make its Grok 2 chatbot open source next week. OpenAI’s models are designed to help developers run advanced AI systems at lower costs while xAI’s move aligns with its open-source philosophy, allowing external developers to inspect, modify, and build upon Grok 2’s capabilities.

“GPT-oss is out! We made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!) (and a smaller one that runs on a phone). Super proud of the team; big triumph of technology,” Sam Altman posted on X.