Elon Musk has promised total transparency after a security researcher revealed that xAI’s coding assistant, Grok Build, was secretly uploading entire private customer code repositories to a company-controlled Google Cloud storage bucket. In response, Musk pledged to make the entire codebase of X open source with “no exceptions” and invite third-party reviewers. The controversy erupted when a security researcher discovered that in one extreme test, Grok Build uploaded a massive 5.1GB of data for a task that only needed 192KB, collecting up to roughly 26,000 times more data than necessary. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly labeled the data privacy issue as “concerning” in a one-word response on X, adding that the incident was “a reason to favor open-source harnesses.” After the findings, the uploads stopped without users needing a software patch. xAI released an official statement claiming that “no trace and code data is ever retained” for enterprise customers with strict zero-data-retention agreements. Musk also announced a total purge, stating, “all user data that was uploaded to SpaceXAI before now will be completely and utterly deleted. Zero anything whatsoever will remain.”