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Elon Musk, AI and Grok

Elon Musk, longtime defender of open-source AI, is bringing advertising into his rogue Grok chatbot
The marketing push comes after Musk has repeatedly criticized (and filed legal action against) OpenAI for its plan to launch a for-profit business. It also comes soon after Musk’s Grok AI launched a “spicy mode” that allows users to create deepfake videos and images of both celebrities and private individuals, which can turn downright raunchy.
Elon Musk adds paid ads to Grok chatbot amid accuracy concerns
The introduction of paid ads in Grok raises concerns over response reliability, as featuring companies in replies may affect the chatbot’s objectivity and accuracy
Elon Musk says xAI will open source Grok 2 after OpenAI launches open AI models
Elon Musk reveals xAI's Grok 2 chatbot will become open source next week, diverging from OpenAI's recent closed-source strategy.
Elon Musk’s xAI and OpenAI go Meta’s way, to give away tech behind AI chatbots
In a significant move, both xAI and OpenAI are embracing open-source strategies for their AI models. OpenAI recently unveiled two open-weight AI model
OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament
The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Elon Musk: I don't think about him that much
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the rollout of the company's GPT-5 model, new ChatGPT features, company growth outlook, what the future of AI looks like, the race for AI talent, his thoughts on tokenization,
Elon Musk’s Grok loses to Sam Altman’s OpenAI in AI chess tournament
Elon Musk’s Grok loses to Sam Altman’s OpenAI in AI chess tournament - OpenAI’s o3 achieves a clean sweep against xAI’s Grok 4
Elon Musk says “OpenAI will eat Microsoft alive” as Nadella champions GPT-5 rollout
Elon Musk ignited a fresh AI feud by claiming OpenAI will surpass Microsoft, despite Satya Nadella's announcement of GPT-5's ...
Elon Musk unveils new AI ‘companion’ inspired by 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight
The tech billionaire’s artificial intelligence offshoot xAI debuted the new features, allow users to interact with animated ...
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Billionaire Musk Pledges To Open-Source xAI’s Grok - Forbes
Topline Billionaire Elon Musk pledged on Monday to open-source his artificial intelligence company xAI’s chatbot Grok this week, a pivotal move to make the generative AI bot available for free ...
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Elon Musk: XAI Will Open-Source Chatbot Grok This Week - Business Insider
Elon Musk posted on X that his startup's AI, Grok, will go open-source this week. It's unclear what aspects of Grok will be made open to the public.
The Hill1y
Musk to make AI chatbot open source amid legal battle with OpenAI
Elon Musk said Monday that his artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI will make its chatbot Grok open source after he sued OpenAI earlier this month for straying from its original mission ...
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Microsoft could bring Elon Musk's Grok AI model to Azure - MSN
Microsoft is reportedly planning to host Elon Musk's Grok AI model. However, it won't host xAI's servers to train any of its future AI models.
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Elon Musk's AI History May Be Behind His Call To Pause Development - Forbes
Elon Musk signed an open letter on Tuesday calling for a six-month pause in the development of artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot that’s become incredibly popular ...
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Elon Musk forming AI team to take on Open AI’s Chat-GPT: report
Twitter owner and Tesla Inc. TSLA Chief Executive Elon Musk aims to get in on artificial intelligence to build a rival to Microsoft Corp. MSFT -backed Open AI and its “safer” GPT-4 model.
Fox News AI Newsletter: OpenAI GPT-5 draws Musk eyeroll
Stay up to date on the latest AI technology advancements and learn about the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and ...