In a striking move within the AI industry, xAI has open-sourced Grok, their AI chatbot model, allowing it to be freely accessible on GitHub. This democratization of Grok means a broader range of developers and researchers can now engage with and enhance the AI's capabilities. Open-sourcing Grok is seen as a strategic push by Elon Musk to foster innovation and challenge competing technologies from established players such as OpenAI, Meta, and Google. The availability of the base model represents a significant asset to the developer community that could shape the evolution of AI applications. The released version of Grok is a powerful 'Mixture-of-Experts' model, boasting 314 billion parameters, yet it remains a raw canvas, neither fine-tuned for specific applications nor packaged with the proprietary data on which it was trained. Instead, the release focuses on the core machinations of the model: its weights and network architecture. By adopting an Apache 2.0 license, xAI ensures that commercial endeavors as well as research pursuits can leverage Grok, albeit without access to the data wells and real-time connections that might further enhance its utility. Elon Musk's advocacy for open-sourcing AI builds upon his recent actions with Twitter’s algorithms and his critical stance towards companies withholding their AI models' source codes. While the practice of releasing models openly isn't unprecedented, the landscape is a mosaic of varying degrees of accessibility. Models such as Mistral and Falcon contrast with Meta's Llama 2, which while freely available for research, imposes restrictions on commercial and development activities. xAI's move with Grok potentially stirs a shift in how AI models are shared, fostering a more collaborative approach to AI evolution.