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Elon Musk Promises Open-Source X Algorithm
11 Jan 2026- Elon Musk vowed to open-source X’s recommendation algorithm within seven days and update it monthly, pledging full code and developer notes — met with skepticism due to past unkept promises.
11 Jan 2026
Elon Musk announced on X that he will open-source X’s new recommendation algorithm in seven days, promising to publish “all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users.” He said the release won’t be a one-off: updates would follow every four weeks and include developer notes describing changes. The pledge is intended to give the public a clearer look at how feeds are shaped — and why timelines often amplify outrage.
Skeptics point to past promises that didn’t fully materialize. Twitter (as it was then) posted portions of its ranking code in 2023 but never kept the GitHub repository current; much of that upload still appears to be from the initial release. Musk has open‑sourced xAI work before (Grok‑1 in 2024), but xAI has since moved to Grok‑3 while the Grok GitHub hasn’t been updated in about two years.
The timing of Musk’s promise comes amid heightened criticism of xAI and Grok, including concerns about the model generating sexualized or deepfake imagery. Given that history, The Verge notes readers may reasonably take Musk’s latest pledge “with a grain of salt.”
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Elon Musk announced on X that he will open-source X’s new recommendation algorithm in seven days, promising to publish “all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users.” He said the release won’t be a one-off: updates would follow every four weeks and include developer notes describing changes. The pledge is intended to give the public a clearer look at how feeds are shaped — and why timelines often amplify outrage.
Skeptics point to past promises that didn’t fully materialize. Twitter (as it was then) posted portions of its ranking code in 2023 but never kept the GitHub repository current; much of that upload still appears to be from the initial release. Musk has open‑sourced xAI work before (Grok‑1 in 2024), but xAI has since moved to Grok‑3 while the Grok GitHub hasn’t been updated in about two years.
The timing of Musk’s promise comes amid heightened criticism of xAI and Grok, including concerns about the model generating sexualized or deepfake imagery. Given that history, The Verge notes readers may reasonably take Musk’s latest pledge “with a grain of salt.”
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