Elon Musk says X’s new algorithm will be made open source next week

X may soon provide more information on how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk said on the platform that the company would “make the new X algorithm, including all the code used to determine which organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days.”

The recommendation algorithm of under investigation by France and the European Commissionthe latter recently extended until 2026, a retention order she sent to the company early last year. And scrutiny of the platform, as well as demands for accountability, have only increased after its chatbot, Grok, was shut down. generate CSAM on user request and continues to be used to digitally undress women in a non-consensual manner.

Musk has promised to open up the algorithm since his purchase of Twitter and published the code for the site’s “For You” feed on GitHub in 2023. But the code wasn’t that revealing, leaving out key details, according to analyzes of the time. And it has not been kept up to date. Regarding the creation of the new open source algorithm, Musk said in his post: “This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with full developer notes, to help you understand what has changed.”