The base Grok-1 model is released openly

Event 3 of 20 in How xAI and Grok developed

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17 Mar 2024

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The base Grok-1 model is released openly

xAI released the base weights and architecture of Grok-1 under the Apache 2.0 licence. It specified that this was the base model, rather than a model fine-tuned for dialogue.

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Open release of Grok-1Company statement · xAI

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Open release of Grok-1 xAI

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