Musk said Twitter subscribers will have early access to xAI's chatbot, Grok

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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is creating its own version of ChatGPT.

At least judging by Musk's Twitter tease on Friday night that the AI model xAI has been quietly developing, this seems to be the case. Named Grok (xAI's recently registered trademark), the model answers questions in a conversational manner, potentially leveraging a knowledge base similar to that used to train ChatGPT and other similar text-generation models, such as Meta's Llama 2.

Musk said Grok utilizes "real-time access" to information on X. And, like ChatGPT, the model has internet browsing capabilities that allow it to search the web for the latest information on a particular topic.

Well, most of the topic.

Grok can access information in real-time through the X platform, which is a huge advantage over other models. It also has a foundation and loves sarcasm. I don't know who can direct like that — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023

Musk hinted that Grock would refuse to answer certain more sensitive questions, such as "tell me how to make cocaine step by step." Judging by the screenshots, the model answers this particular question more ironically than ChatGPT. It's unclear if this is a preset answer, or if the system actually — as Musk claimed in a tweet — "designed to have a little more humor in its responses." ”

xAI's Grok system is designed to have a bit of humor in its response — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023

Earlier on Friday, Musk said xAI would release its first AI model — presumably Grok — to a "select group" on Saturday, November 4. But in a follow-up tweet tonight, Musk said that all subscribers to X's recently launched Premium Plus plan, which costs $16 per month, will get ad-free access to X, with access to Grok "once early testing ends."

xAI's Grok system will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers once early testing is over — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023

Until now, little is known about Grok and xAI's broader research projects.

In September, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who claims to be a close friend of Musk, said that xAI had signed a contract to train its AI models on Oracle's cloud. But xAI itself doesn't reveal anything about the inner workings of these AI models or, in fact, what kind of tasks they can accomplish.

Musk announced xAI in July, with the ambitious goal of building artificial intelligence to "understand the true nature of the universe." The company is led by Elon Musk as well as veterans of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto, with advice from Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Security, an AI research nonprofit, and working with X and other companies that have replaced Musk, including Tesla.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson in April, Musk said he wanted to build what he called "an artificial intelligence that seeks the truth to the maximum." Is Grok AI? Maybe – or maybe it's a step towards something bigger.

"In some important ways, it (xAI's new model) is the best model that currently exists," Musk was quoted as saying in a tweet Friday afternoon.

Musk's AI ambitions have grown since the billionaire broke up with ChatGPT developers OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever a few years ago. As OpenAI's focus shifted from open-source research to major commercial projects, Musk became disillusioned with the company where he served on the board and developed a competitive mentality. Musk stepped down from OpenAI's board of directors in 2018 and recently cut off the company's access to Twitter's data, citing that OpenAI did not pay enough for the privilege.