xAI open sources Grok Build codebase following privacy backlash

xAI has released the source code for its Grok Build CLI tool under an Apache 2.0 license, aiming to restore user trust after a controversy where the software uploaded entire local directories to Google Cloud buckets.

• The release includes approximately 844,530 lines of Rust code, with only about 3% being vendored dependencies.
• xAI disabled the default data retention feature on July 12th and deleted all previously retained user coding data.
• The codebase contains tool implementations ported from other projects like Codex and OpenCode, alongside a custom terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams.
• Remnants of the Google Cloud upload functionality remain in the repository but are currently disabled and return errors indicating unavailability.