Editing Grok chatbot (section)

== Background ==

=== OpenAI ===
Musk was one of the 11 co-founders of [[OpenAI]], and initially co-chaired it with [[Sam Altman]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 12, 2024 |title=Only 4 of OpenAI's 11 Founders Are Still With the Company—Where Are the Rest of Them? |url=https://observer.com/2024/07/openai-founders-career/ |access-date=May 15, 2025 |website=Observer }}</ref> He left the company's board in 2018, saying of his decision that he "didn't agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do".<ref name="bi">{{cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Sarah |title=Elon Musk says he's planning to create a 'maximum truth-seeking AI' that he likes to call 'TruthGPT' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-hes-building-ai-he-calls-truthgpt-2023-4 |access-date=December 7, 2023 |work=Business Insider |date=April 17, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207180845/https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-hes-building-ai-he-calls-truthgpt-2023-4 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

OpenAI went on to launch [[ChatGPT]] in 2022, and [[GPT-4]] in March 2023. The same month, Musk was one of the individuals to sign the "[[Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter]]" from the Future of Life Institute, which called for a six-month pause in the development of any AI software more powerful than GPT-4.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Knight |first=Will |title=In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT |url=https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-pause-ai-experiments-open-letter/ |access-date=December 7, 2023 |magazine=Wired |date=March 29, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207180846/https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-pause-ai-experiments-open-letter/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== TruthGPT ===
In April 2023, Musk said in an interview on ''[[Tucker Carlson Tonight]]'' that he intended to develop an AI chatbot called "TruthGPT", which he described as "a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe".<ref name="bi" /> He expressed concern to Carlson that ChatGPT was being "trained to be [[politically correct]]".<ref>{{cite news |title=Elon Musk says he'll create 'TruthGPT' to counter AI 'bias' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-ap-chatgpt-tesla-openai-b2321564.html |access-date=December 7, 2023 |work=The Independent |date=April 18, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207180758/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-ap-chatgpt-tesla-openai-b2321564.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Grok ===
TruthGPT would later be renamed after ''[[grok]]'', a verb coined by American author [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in his 1961 science fiction novel ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' to describe a form of understanding.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cuthbertson |first=Anthony |date=November 7, 2023 |title=How Elon Musk's 'spicy' Grok compares to 'woke' ChatGPT |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/grok-vs-chatgpt-xai-musk-b2442866.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202205919/https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/grok-vs-chatgpt-xai-musk-b2442866.html |archive-date=December 2, 2023 |website=The Independent |url-status=live |access-date=December 2, 2023 }}</ref>