In November 2023, xAI introduced its AI model, Grok, which is designed to answer questions with wit and a rebellious streak. Grok has real-time knowledge of the world via the Musk-owned social media platform X and can answer questions that most other AI systems reject. In March, xAI unveiled its open-source AI model, Grok-1, a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is reportedly close to raising $6 billion from investors, which would value the company at $18 billion.
- Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley VC firm, has committed to investing in xAI, and Musk has approached other investors who participated in his 2022 acquisition of Twitter.
- xAI launched its AI model Grok in November 2023, which has capabilities rivaling those of Meta’s LLaMA 2 AI model and OpenAI’s GPT-3.5.
- In March, xAI unveiled its open-source AI model, Grok-1, a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.