On November 4, American billionaire Elon Musk - owner of social network X (formerly Twitter) introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot called "Grok" integrated into X and Tesla electric cars, competing directly with ChatGPT.

According to Wccftech , Grok was trained on The Pile, a popular data repository for training large language models, and on the massive amount of data from social network X itself. While OpenAI's GPT-4 limits responses to 4,096 characters, Grok can produce responses that are 25,000 characters long, five times larger than ChatGPT.

Chatbot Grok will be integrated into Tesla electric cars. (Source: TechAu.com)

On the X website, Musk said the Grok chatbot can give humorous answers and that the fact that it is built into X is a “huge advantage” over other AI chatbot models. After the beta testing phase, Grok will be available to users who subscribe to the X Premium+ service (a $16/month service that is ad-free).

In addition to text responses, the Grok chatbot can recognize images and voices, as well as generate images. What makes Grok different is that the context of the response is largely based on the content collected on X. In addition, billionaire Musk's AI chatbot will be integrated into Tesla electric cars.

Grok is the first product of the xAI startup founded by Mr. Musk last July. xAI brings together researchers from the US technology company OpenAI, Google's DeepMind AI development team, Tesla and the University of Toronto.

According to Fortune , Grok is Musk's clearest response to OpenAI. After leaving the startup he co-founded, Musk repeatedly mentioned that OpenAI no longer maintained its original non-profit philosophy and was gradually monopolized by Microsoft.

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot debuted a year ago, AI has become a fiercely competitive field, with tech giants Microsoft and Google, as well as Meta and startups like Anthropic and Stability AI, competing. OpenAI is on track to generate billions of dollars in annual revenue, according to Bloomberg . The company is in talks to go public at a valuation of $86 billion, making it one of the world’s most valuable companies.

Elon Musk at the AI ​​Safety Summit 2023 on November 2 in the UK. (Source: Reuters)

Billionaire Musk is one of the few investors in the world who is considered to have enough financial capacity to compete with OpenAI, Google or Meta in AI technology.

Grok was born at a time when Elon Musk was controversially claiming that humans would no longer need jobs because AI could do everything, but that this was “both good and bad.” He also frequently warned about the threats that AI posed to humanity. The American billionaire once assessed AI as more dangerous than nuclear weapons, and was one of the tech leaders who called for a halt to the development of AI more advanced than OpenAI’s GPT-4 in March.