Happy Monday! Current status: Listening to This Will Destroy You and sipping a fresh brew. What’s your drink of choice on this Monday morning?
Here’s some news:
🍎 Gemini coming to iPhone? Maybe, according to this report by Bloomberg.
🕹️ Sony is launching a faster PS5 Pro, and it may arrive this summer.
🤖 It’s not your imagination. See just how companies love to say “AI”— especially the top 500 companies.
Remember Grok? Elon’s more sassy, Hitchhiker’s Guide-inspired alternative to OpenAI. Launched back in 2023 by xAI, Grok stood out from the AI crowd with features like access to real-time information via X (formerly Twitter) and a distinct lack of political correctness.
It was all quiet on the xAI front until March 11th, when Elon Musk announced the team will open source Grok. Fast forward to today, and the company has fulfilled that promise by posting an open release of Grok-1 on GitHub, allowing researchers and developers more freedom to build on the platform and influence its direction.
According to a company blog post, the open release includes the “base model weights and network architecture” of the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1.” It continues on to say that Grok-1 hasn’t undergone any fine-tuning training for any specific applications like conversational assistants.
Grok joins a growing number of AI models that have made the leap to open-source, including Meta’s LLaMa and Mistral. Google has even launched a suite of open-source sister models to Gemini.
Of course, makers are going to do what makers do best, and since the announcement, a number have taken the opportunity to dive into Grok and see what they can build, including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who announced his company will fine-tune Grok for conversational search and make it available for their pro users.
All this is happening in the shadow of a battle going on between OpenAI and Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI all those years ago alongside Sam Altman. The latter is suing the former over a supposed “betrayal” of its original not-for-profit mission statement. Of course, OpenAI has fired back.
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