The 21st of January, yesterday, Elon Mask announced X FormalOpen SourceA new recommended algorithm and synchronise disclosure of its integrity on GitHubCodeWarehouse。
The X Engineering Team wrote yesterday that the new algorithm is based on the same transform structure as the xAI 's Grok model, covering all core logic recommended by the platform for determining "natural content" and "advertising content."。
MASK ADDED THAT X WOULD UPDATE THE ALGORITHM EVERY FOUR WEEKS IN THE FUTURE, WITH A DEVELOPER ' S NOTE, SO THAT THE OUTSIDE WORLD COULD UNDERSTAND THE CHANGES IN THE REFERRAL MECHANISM. IN HIS POST, HE SAID, "WE KNOW THAT THIS ALGORITHM IS STUPID AND NEEDS A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT, BUT AT LEAST YOU CAN SEE IN REAL TIME THAT WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT BETTER AND TRANSPARENT. I'M SORRY
According to several media sources, this open-source operation has continued Mask ' s past support for open-source technology。
Stocktwits reported that the new warehouse contains a complete process from candidate content retrieval, sorting to filtering, using the Grok rewritten transformer model to predict the probability of multiple interactions between users of the post, including acclaims, responses, forwarding and clicks。
GitHub repository README shows that the new version of the algorithm has removed a large number of manual rules from the old version of the system and has been sorted by end-to-end machine learning models。
However, The Verge mentioned that X had an old version of the recommended algorithm in 2023 but that the warehouse had not been updated for a long time, and therefore there were reservations about the extent to which Mask was implementing this commitment。
At the same time, it was noted that the opening point of the event was at a time when Mask was facing criticism from multinational regulators of Grok ' s inappropriate images。
In response, XAI last week adjusted the image processing capacity of Grok to limit its ability to edit photographs of real people in response to external concerns about deep-false content. In addition, XAI completed $20 billion in financing earlier this month to scale up the data centre。
In terms of the size of users, it is reported that Similarweb data show that the number of users active in Meta Threads reached 141.5 million this month, more than 125 million for X. Against the background of increased competitive pressures, open source algorithms are considered to be an important initiative in an attempt to rebuild developers ' ecology and user trust。
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm