I audited the Grok Build source release. The agent harness is open, the model weights aren't, and local-first still needs four privacy controls.
SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build, and three versions of the story immediately started circulating:
"Grok 4.5 is open source now."
"You can run the whole Grok stack offline."
"The privacy problem is solved because the code is public."
The first two are wrong. The third is directionally useful, but nowhere near proven.
SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build under Apache 2.0. Read the Rust agent loop, tools, TUI, and local-first config.toml path
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