I don't think companies are hosting them because imagine the liability. Could be wrong though. Again I don't know much about these things I just know they exist.
I've been working on my own misaligned model and grok is definitely different enough with a syspronpt compared to all the other frontier models that I've considered using it to generate synthetic training data, however it leans really heavy into LLMisms which makes it not really worth it.
Tangentially I also really like the idea of llms as librarians they are trying out with grokapedia.
It is the dropbox comment all over again.
"Well you can just self-host to get uncencored same as Grok without NAZI!! Elon Musk!!"
Just like you can spin up an FTP to get your own Dropbox.
Well... very few people are going to actually do that.