India, July 14 -- A new controversy has started around xAI's Grok Build coding tool after a security researcher claimed it was uploading users' entire code repositories to xAI's cloud without clearly informing them.

The issue became widely discussed after software security expert Hari posted about it on X. Hari claimed, "I reversed xAI's official Grok Build binary. In a controlled session with zero tool-calls, it uploaded the complete codebase to xAI's storage. It ships a malware-like background code collector." Hari wrote on X, "SpaceXAI was caught uploading your code to its cloud."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reacted to Hari's post by replying with a one-word response: "concerning."

xAI later responded publicly to the allegations on X. The...