No! It will take quite some time, and you will perish before that happens. Elon Musk has announced that X’s entire codebase will go open source once xAI wraps up an internal review for security vulnerabilities. He says they will publish the whole thing without holding anything back.
Further stating that they are inviting third-party reviewers to confirm that what gets published actually matches what’s running in production.
Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions.
Moreover, we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running.…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2026
The onboarding of reviewers could be a move to tackle a common complaint against corporate open source releases where the published code is different from what’s actually deployed.
Of course, skepticism around the announced move has shown up as expected.
JerryRigEverything, a man known for his knack for taking smartphones to their breaking point, replied to the original tweet (xeet?) saying that:
Don’t you say this every few months? That tracks.
And he’s not wrong. Elon has made open source promises like this before, for X’s codebase and for Grok’s models alike, and not all of them have held up.
A pattern to take note of
X’s transparency push goes back further than Grok. In March 2023, not long after taking over the platform, Elon had X (called Twitter back then) publish a partial version of its recommendation algorithm on GitHub, the platform’s first real step toward opening up its codebase.
Then there’s Grok 1. He tweeted back in March 2024 that xAI would open source Grok. Six days later, the company delivered, publishing the base model’s weights and architecture under Apache 2.0.
In August 2025, xAI put the weights for Grok 2.5, its 2024 flagship, up on Hugging Face (listed there as “Grok 2”). Elon said at the time that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.”
That puts it somewhere in February 2026, a window that’s now been closed for months with no sign of Grok 3 on Hugging Face.
Following that, in January 2026, the code behind the “For You” feed’s ranking algorithm went open source too, landing in a separate repository built on a Grok-based transformer model.
This is the one that actually got the update it was promised, picking up a substantial refresh in May 2026. And more recently, Grok Build followed on July 15, the same day as the X open-sourcing announcement, with xAI publishing the coding agent’s Rust source and terminal interface on GitHub under Apache 2.0.
The record, overall, is mixed rather than uniformly bad. The “For You” algorithm got the update it was promised, the 2023 algorithm release didn’t (you can check the repo linked above), and Grok 3’s six-month window closed back in February 2026 with nothing to show for it.
Let’s see what comes of Elon’s latest promise.
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