Tech Brew Ride Home · Thursday, July 16, 2026
SpaceX AI has open-sourced its coding agent Grok build under an Apache 2.0 license following user backlash over an incident where it uploaded sensitive user data. The company has disabled the upload feature and deleted all uploaded data. This move aims to rebuild trust and provide full transparency, allowing the tool to run entirely locally.
“SpaceX AI has open sourced Grok build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool uploaded user repository data to SpaceX AI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a backlash.”
“AI disabled the upload feature and published the full source code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license to rebuild trust.”
“By open sourcing the tool, AI wants to provide full transparency.”