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xAI open-sources "Grok-Build" on GitHub after massive data breach
Image: Primary Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI published the source code for its Grok Build coding agent on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license after users discovered the tool uploaded entire directory contents to company servers. The terminal-based agent, invoked via the grok command, can read and edit codebases, run shell commands, search the web and manage long-running tasks. Users reported that SSH keys, password databases, documents and photos were transferred to xAI's Google Cloud infrastructure. Musk announced that all uploaded user data would be fully deleted. The company disabled the upload feature and released the code to provide full transparency. The codebase spans about 844,530 lines of Rust and covers the agent loop, tools, terminal UI and an extension system for plugins and subagents. Remnants of the upload function remain in the code but are disabled. According to xAI, data storage has been off by default since July 12.
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