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Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok

Via The Verge AI
Thursday, Apr 30, 2026 · 6:16PM
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In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to

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