🫢 Musk shames OpenAI by making Grok open-source

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Tuesday’s top story: Amidst his lawsuit, Musk takes another swipe at OpenAI by making his Grok chatbot open-source.

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🫢 Musk shames OpenAI by making Grok open-source
⚡ Midjourney blames rival Stability AI for 24hr outage
🤖 Covariant launches ChatGPT for robots
🏁 AV startup raises $250M part-funded by F1 winner
🚀 WhatsApp founder funds next-level AGI

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CHATBOTS

🫢 Musk shames OpenAI by making Grok open-source

Our Report: In alignment with his ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI—for deviating from its open-source roots—Elon Musk has announced that he will open-source Grok (its ChatGPT rival) this week.

Key Points:

Grok—a chatbot that accesses information via X (formerly Twitter) and answers unconventional questions—was launched last year, and is available on a $16 monthly X subscription.
Musk’s move to make Grok open-source comes 11 days after he sued OpenAI for turning its back on its mission to advance open-source AI for the “benefit of humanity.”
Although he didn’t specify exactly which parts of Grok he plans to open-source, making the chatbot open-source will give the public access to the code that it’s built on.

Why you should care: Alongside Meta and Mistral—who have also published their code to the public—Musk has been consistent in his support for open-sourcing (many of Tesla's patents are open-source) as he believes it will speed up innovation in the space.

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COMPETITION

⚡ Midjourney blames rival Stability AI for 24hr outage

Text-to-image model, Midjourney, suffered an outage that prevented its users from generating images for 24hrs, and has accused its rival Stability AI of causing it.
It traced “botnet-like activity from multiple paid accounts” back to the Stability AI data team—which was attempting to scrape its data—causing the severe system outage.
In response, they’ve banned all Stability AI employees and introduced a policy that will stop any company from exercising “aggressive automation”, causing outages.

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ROBOTICS

🤖 Covariant launches ChatGPT for robots

Robotic software startup, Covariant—founded by ex-OpenAI researchers—has used chatbot technology to build AI robot software (RFM-1) that learns by watching/listening.
Users can chat with RFM-1 (as they would with ChatGPT) and it will process real-world data to gain human-like context and determine what to do next.
This marks a step up from traditional robotic systems which are programmed to do one job repeatedly, and Covariant plans to integrate this into warehouse robots.

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

🏁 AV startup raises $250M part-funded by F1 winner

Autonomous vehicle (AV) software start-up—Applied Intuition—has raised $250M (valuing it at $6B), to bring more AI to automotive, defense, and agriculture sectors.
The Series E funding round was led by Lux Capital and Porsche Investments Management with contributions from others, such as A16z and F1 champion Nico Rosberg.
Applied Intuition already works with “18 of the top 20 automakers”, autonomous vehicle startups, and the Army and Defense Innovation Unit.

ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

🚀 WhatsApp founder funds next-level AGI

Newlands VC (WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum’’s investment firm), is leading a $10M Series A funding round into SuperAGI (an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research lab).
SuperAGI researches and builds open-source AGI frameworks and models that are used by over 20,000 developers (including those from Google, Tesla, and OpenAI).
Funding will allow them to build an AGI platform based on Large Agentic Models (LAMs)—next-stage Large Language Models (LLMs)—to resolve common issues (like inaccurate results).