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Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models - TechCrunch
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During the civil trial, Elon Musk testified that his xAI unit trained the Grok chatbot by prompting and extracting behavior from OpenAI models — a practice known as "distillation." Stuart Russell’s courtroom testimony as Musk’s AI expert tied that technical accusation to broader safety concerns, arguing that competitive tactics among frontier labs risk accelerating an AGI arms race. The distillation claim now sits alongside existential‑risk arguments that could influence how jurors view competitive harm and responsibilities in model development.
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