xAI's decision to open-source the entire Grok Build codebase under Apache 2.0 just hours after the backlash was presumably an attempt to regain user trust.

Simon Willison suggests xAI's rapid open-sourcing of Grok Build was a trust-rebuilding move following the data-upload controversy. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-15 · original ↗

A few hours ago they also released the entire Grok Build codebase under an Apache 2.0 license - presumably to try and regain trust from their users. From their thread announcing the new repository:

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