{"id":94337,"date":"2025-08-24T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94337\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:08:05","slug":"elon-musk-says-xai-has-open-sourced-grok-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94337\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk\u2019s xAI has made <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/xai-org\/grok-2\" target=\"_blank\">an older version of its AI model Grok<\/a> \u2014 specifically, the<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/engineadvocacyfoundation.medium.com\/ai-essentials-what-are-model-weights-2e5b47ec77a1\" target=\"_blank\"> model weights<\/a> used to shape Grok 2.5 \u2014\u00a0 available on the open source platform Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,\u201d Musk <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1959379349322313920\">wrote on X<\/a>. He added that Grok 3 \u201cwill be made open source in about 6 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI engineer Tim Kellogg <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/timkellogg.me\/post\/3lx3wxlswv22z\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> the Grok <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/xai-org\/grok-2\/blob\/main\/LICENSE\" target=\"_blank\">license<\/a> as \u201ccustom with some anti-competitive terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which in turn <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/29\/elon-musk-says-xai-acquired-x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently merged with xAI<\/a>), has created considerable controversy this year, particularly after the chatbot seemed to become <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/15\/xai-blames-groks-obsession-with-white-genocide-on-an-unauthorized-modification\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obsessed with \u201cwhite genocide\u201d conspiracy theories<\/a>, expressed <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/18\/grok-says-its-skeptical-about-holocaust-death-toll-then-blames-programming-error\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">skepticism about the Holocaust\u2019s death toll<\/a>, and described itself as \u201cMechaHitler,\u201d leading xAI to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/xai-org\/grok-prompts\" target=\"_blank\">publish its system prompts on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while Musk described the latest version, Grok 4, as a \u201cmaximally truth-seeking AI,\u201d the model <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/10\/grok-4-seems-to-consult-elon-musk-to-answer-controversial-questions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appears to consult Musk\u2019s social media account<\/a> before answering controversial questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok \u2014 specifically, the model weights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,250,61,9664,1684],"class_list":["post-94337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elon-musk","tag-technology","tag-x","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}