{"id":104454,"date":"2026-01-11T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/elon-musk-says-xs-new-algorithm-will-be-made-open-source-next-week\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:35:17","slug":"elon-musk-says-xs-new-algorithm-will-be-made-open-source-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/elon-musk-says-xs-new-algorithm-will-be-made-open-source-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says X&#8217;s new algorithm will be made open source next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company &#8220;will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">X&#8217;s recommendation algorithm has been the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/france-launches-criminal-probe-of-xs-alleged-algorithm-manipulation-123017920.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:subject of investigations by France;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">subject of investigations by France<\/a> <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/the-eu-wants-to-know-just-how-xs-recommendation-algorithm-works-161000963.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:and the European Commission;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">and the European Commission<\/a>, the latter of which <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/eu-commission-has-ordered-x-retain-all-grok-documents-until-end-2026-2026-01-08\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:recently extended;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">recently extended<\/a> through 2026 a retention order that it sent to the company at the beginning of last year. And scrutiny into the platform, along with demands for accountability, have only increased after its chatbot, Grok, was caught <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/elon-musks-grok-ai-posted-csam-image-following-safeguard-lapses-140521454.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:generating CSAM at users' requests;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">generating CSAM at users&#8217; requests<\/a> and continues to be <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/08\/grok-x-nonconsensual-images\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:used to digitally undress women;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">used to digitally undress women<\/a> nonconsensually.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A screenshot of an X post by Elon Musk that reads, &quot;We will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days. This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"447\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"fig-image-round\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/TAmMHojRdwAn67LRcl.nng--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQ0Nw--\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/Screenshot_2026-01-10_at_4.50.33%E2%80%AFPM.png\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-[0.875rem]\/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 mt-2.5 md:mt-2 pr-2.5\">\n<p><span class=\"[&amp;_p]:inline\">Elon Musk&#8217;s X post about open-sourcing the algorithm.<\/span><span> (Screenshot\/X)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Musk has been making promises of open-sourcing the algorithm since his takeover of Twitter, and in 2023 published the code for the site&#8217;s &#8220;For You&#8221; feed on GitHub. But the code wasn&#8217;t all that revealing, leaving out key details, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/what-did-twitters-open-source-algorithm-actually-reveal-not-a-lot-194652809.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to analyses at the time;cpos:6;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">according to analyses at the time<\/a>. And it hasn&#8217;t been kept up to date. Of the making the new algorithm open source, Musk said in his post, &#8220;This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/elon-musk-says-xs-new-algorithm-will-be-made-open-source-next-week-225721656.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company &#8220;will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadget"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}