X's New Algorithm Officially Open-Sourced, Musk Says Significant Improvements Will Continue

Odaily News on January 20th: The engineering team of platform X announced that it has officially open-sourced the latest version of the X algorithm. According to the official introduction, this algorithm adopts the same Transformer architecture as the Grok model under xAI.

Elon Musk subsequently responded, stating that the current algorithm is still "quite clumsy" and requires continuous significant improvements. However, open-sourcing means users can see the entire process of algorithm optimization in real-time and transparently. He also pointed out that other social media platforms have not taken similar actions.

Previously, on January 11th, Musk stated that X would open-source the core algorithm code used for determining organic search content and ad recommendations within 7 days, with plans to repeat this every four weeks, accompanied by detailed developer documentation. Even earlier, adjustments made by the X platform's algorithm to recommendations for "cryptocurrency"-related content sparked widespread discussion within the crypto community.