Grok-2 License Policy and Usage Guidelines
xAI has designed a special open source licensing policy for Grok-2, the Grok 2 Community License Agreement. This agreement has three distinguishing features:
- Academic Friendly: Allow researchers complete freedom to download, study and use models for non-commercial academic exploration
- Commercial restrictions: Specific authorization conditions and compliance requirements are set for commercial use
- Derivative restrictions: Explicitly prohibits the use of Grok-2 or its outputs to train or improve other AI systems
This setup reflects xAI's consideration of balancing the promotion of AI technology with the protection of its own technological advantages. Notably, the protocol allows Supervised Fine-tuning of Grok-2 itself, which provides flexibility for domain-specific applications.
From the perspective of industry practice, this kind of "semi-open" licensing model is becoming a common choice for large technology companies when open-sourcing AI models, which can not only promote technological advances, but also protect core business interests.
This answer comes from the articleGrok-2: xAI's Open Source Hybrid Expert Large Language ModelThe
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