In August 2025 xAI published the weights of Grok 2.5 on Hugging Face under a custom license that critics said contains anti-competitive terms.

What this evidence bears on

• Supports: xAI released the weights of Grok 2.5 for anyone to download.

  • A reason for “xAI”

• Supports: Grok 2.5’s custom license restricts commercial use, unlike a truly open license such as Apache 2.0.

  • A reply in “xAI”