Hypocrite Elon Musk Is Criticizing OpenAI for Not Open Sourcing ChatGPT While Refusing to Do the Same With Grok

Last week, multi-hyphenate billionaire and White House operative Elon Musk made a gigantic $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. Musk cofounded the ChatGPT maker alongside current CEO Sam Altman in 2015, but ragequit four years later after growing frustrated with its direction. Ever since, Musk has maintained that OpenAI needs to "return to the open source, safety-focused force for good it once was," as he told the Wall Street Journal in a statement earlier this month. While OpenAI's board has since rejected the offer, the actions of Musk's competing xAI startup highlight a glaring double standard. Specifically, while Musk has repeatedly excoriated OpenAI and its leadership for refusing to open source its AI models, his own AI company has yet to do the same. As ZDNet points out, the startup has only open sourced its first AI model, dubbed Grok 1, back in March, roughly four months after its initial release. All subsequent models, including Grok 3, which was ... Read full article.