Chatbot Grok-1.5 by Elon Musk available next week
The chatbot will be available to Premium users of the X social media platform starting next week.
Grok-1.5 will be available for use on the X platform "in the next few days." With the new model, xAI, Elon Musk's company behind the chatbot, aims to make improvements over Grok-1. In particular, th... Read more
xAI will open source ChatGPT competitor Grok this week
xAI, Elon Musk's AI development company, will this week open source the Grok GenAI chatbot. This would counterbalance OpenAI, which, according to the eccentric tech entrepreneur, makes its tools "closed sourced" again.
By making Grok open source, Elon Musk may want to debate further whether GenA... Read more
X increasingly attractive to business audiences, but will they return?
X competes with WordPress, adding a feature to write and share blogs on the social media platform. It is another addition to the platform that may be of interest to business users. At the same time, the question remains whether X can convince those business users to return to the social media platf... Read more
OpenAI fights off Musk allegations and reveals internal emails
Last week, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, which he co-founded. Now that company is defending itself against Musk's allegation that it is unfairly pursuing a for-profit model. Indeed, old emails allegedly show that the tech tycoon himself wanted OpenAI to bring in more money to develop AI... Read more
Ex-Twitter executives sue Elon Musk over severance pay
Former Twitter executives have taken Elon Musk and X to court. They claim to be entitled to $128 million (118 million euros) in unpaid severance pay.
The lawsuit by the former Twitter executives is an aftermath of the chaotic takeover of -then- Twitter in 2022, writes The Wall Street Journal and... Read more
Musk sues OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for ‘abandoning mission’
Elon Musk is filing a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. The tech tycoon alleges that Altman and his company placed profits above seeking to benefit humanity.
Musk, along with Altman, was one of the founders of OpenAI in 2015. He was one of the initiative's key investors. A... Read more
Elon Musk confirms planned email service “XMail”
In a post on his own social media platform X, Elon Musk let it be known that an email service is being worked on.
Musk was asked by one of his Engineering employees when people would start making "XMail." "It's coming," he responded. In addition to this, Musk repeatedly denounced recent developm... Read more
Advertisers have stepped away from X, LinkedIn prices soar
Since Elon Musk took the helm at X, advertisers have been walking away from the social media platform. Meanwhile, others are taking advantage, chief among them LinkedIn. Advertising space on that website now costs up to 30 percent more than before.
Speaking to The Financial Times, Leesha Anderso... Read more
X worth less than 29 per cent of amount paid by Musk
The value of social media platform X is currently less than a third of the amount Elon Musk once paid for Twitter.
According to Axios, American investment firm Fidelity has once again written down its shares of X. Recently, the investor found that the current value of the social media platform i... Read more
AI chatbot ‘Grok’ from co-founder OpenAI launched: ‘sarcastic and based’
'Grok' is the first AI chatbot from xAI. This company is led by Elon Musk, who was involved with the founding of OpenAI. Can we expect a success story like ChatGPT?
Although Grok is only xAI's first AI model, the model may appeal to a large group of potential users. Grok owes that to its ties t... Read more