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• @jimmybajimmyba Jimmy Ba on x

  Last day at xAI. xAI's mission is push humanity up the Kardashev tech tree.  Grateful to have helped cofound at the start...So proud of what the xAI team has done and will continue to stay close as a friend of the team...It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture.  2…

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  New @xAI office opened in Seattle area

• @rolandgvc Roland on x

  I left xAI. Building something new with others that left xAI. We're hiring :)

• @rschmied Rob Schmied on x

  SpaceX investors wondering why they took 20% dilution for cash-flow negative Xai while most of Xai core team quit because they are wondering why they now have 80% of their prior equity upside linked to exploding rockets. I think that is the summary, perhaps something deeper.

• @graceihle Grace Kay on x

  Jimmy Ba is the second cofounder at xAI to announce he was leaving in less than 48 hours. He's also the fifth to leave in the last year. Up until late last year when his responsibilities were split between two other cofounders, Ba oversaw a large portion of the company.

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  LMFAO 💀 [image]

• @rishibommasani Rishi on x

  Most, if not all, of the folks I knew that were part of the founding team or early hires at xAI have left. I am glad they were as impactful as they were in a short period, and grew as much as they did. I am more glad that they can now focus on pursuits that more produce positive

• @iscienceluvr Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. on x

  With Jimmy Ba's departure, half of the xAI founding team has left [image]

• @adam_and_evs @adam_and_evs on x

  Wow! I haven't been tracking XAi departures. Perhaps I should. So many fleeing the stench of moronicity and paedophilia across all of Pedolf's companies!

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  What is going on at xAI?

• @c_s_skeptic @c_s_skeptic on x

  Been farming tweet searches, and looks like AT LEAST ELEVEN people walked away from XAI/Grok today alone. What the fuck did SpaceX actually get in this acquisition - because it sure as hell wasn't Human Resources! [image]

• @yacinemtb Kache on x

  i'm quitting XAI. it was a good run. i'm going to be starting something new, which creates something good in the world (autonomous killer drones)

• @teortaxestex @teortaxestex on x

  Everyone is leaving xAI. It's not just cofounders, it's tons of people. Is this about SpaceX being a strategic aerospace company with natsec implications? Many are Chinese after all. But no... many aren't. Enraging that they're all just spewing this boilerplate. [image]

• @theandipenguin Andi Peng on x

  Oops humans& missed the start of founder free agency memo

• @negroprogrammer @negroprogrammer on x

  Watching mad men for the first time and what's happening at xai is increasingly obvious. We're in a sterling cooper draper pryce moment

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  Another xAI co-founder left! Jimmy Ba, author of Adam and LayerNorm, a legend in AI. 2 co-founders in 2 consecutive days. What's going on at xAI?

• @benhylak Ben on x

  when the spacex equity hits

• @hamandcheese Samuel Hammond on x

  “Recursive self improvement loops likely go live in the next 12mo.”

• @liuyunlong63318 Yunlong Liu on x

  Thanks Jimmy for everything you have helped at xAI and I really appreciate. Good luck with your future endeavors and happy to chat more!

• @chatgpt21 Chris on x

  Damn I was just joking about 4.2 being dead on arrival, I didn't know it was true 😭

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  A second xAI cofounder announces today that they're leaving? Unusual!

• @wilkos @wilkos on bluesky

  You'd think they'd want to stick around after their $250B buy out, unless they have no faith in any future revenue that could remotely justify that valuation...  [embedded post]

• @seanokane Sean O'Kane on bluesky

  In case you're having trouble keeping up — as am I because I had to double check — this is the second xAI cofounder to leave in 48 hours [embedded post]

• @yuhu_ai_ @yuhu_ai_ on x

  I resigned from xAI today.  This company - and the family we became - will stay with me forever.  I will deeply miss the people, the warrooms, and all those battles we have fought together.  It's time for my next chapter.  It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed …

• @himanshustwts Himanshu on x

  this isn't looking good [image]

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  Sir, our FOURTH co-founder has left xAI.." [image]

• @llmjunky @llmjunky on x

  xAI seems like it's completely cooked. I don't know how you can recover at this point. Grok 4.2 is going to be dead before it arrives. Kinda sad.

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Another xAI cofounder leaves the company. (caveat of there's lots of movement among AI execs)

• @vahidk Vahid Kazemi on x

  I left xAI a few weeks ago. That was short! IMO, all AI labs are building the exact same thing, and it's boring. I think there's room for more creativity. So, I'm starting something new.

• @urvicodes Urvashi Jain on x

  After @SpaceX merger, most of the co-founders are quitting @xai , this isn't looking Good. Something is fishy 🤔 [image]

• @alexia Alexia Bonatsos on x

  They're dropping like AI company co-founders.

• @graceihle Grace Kay on x

  Tony Wu is the fourth cofounder to leave xAI in the past year. He led the reasoning org and began reporting to Elon Musk last year. XAI underwent a reorg a few weeks ago and cofounder Guodong Zhang took over some of Wu's responsibilities, insiders said.

• @theo_wayt Theo Wayt on x

  Another xAI co-founder is out Leading up to the SpaceX merger last week, Elon Musk had grown frustrated with delays to new Grok models, we've reported. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]

• @alvaromysterio Alvaro Mysterio on x

  Why is top talent leaving @xai ? @elonmusk [image]

• @factorydoge69 @factorydoge69 on x

  they banned him for speaking the truth @styngdn [image]

• @daniel_mac8 Dan McAteer on x

  He really didn't like the idea of going to the Moon before Mars, did he?

• @ricburton Richard Burton on x

  Private secondaries markets have totally changed the way talent moves in Silicon Valley Now if you pick the right company you can be set for life in 2-3 years Vesting agreements will have to change [image]

• @seconds_0 @seconds_0 on x

  This is now a full leadership turnover at xAI

• @trace_cohen Trace Cohen on x

  $100M seed round coming soon...

• @umbisam @umbisam on x

  Wow. YTW is a xAI co-founder. My guess: team didn't like the X merge first & SpaceX acquisition later.

• @thedaviddosu David Dosu on x

  This keeps being truer and truer. [image]

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  When leadership goes it usually means the boss isn't happy with their progress. Not good though.

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  xAI co-founder left xAI. I believe this makes it the 4th co-founder to leave. Also Greg Yang is sick. Still wish xAI can build top models.

• @teortaxestex @teortaxestex on x

  Many people are leaving labs with tons of resources (while legends from pre-AI software are joining the labs). What is most remarkable to me is that the first group seems confident they'll build new companies outside. Anthropic folks are skeptical about that.

• @aiandcloudtech @aiandcloudtech on x

  Anthropic is still the only AI company that has managed to retain 100% of their cofounders.

• r/singularity r on reddit

  One of the cofounders of xAI leaves the company

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  one word: polycule

• @shalev_lif Shalev on x

  Guys, not everyone who posted about leaving xAI today left xAI *today* I even see people posting that “all 20 co-founders” just left. You understand, this would mean Elon left too? This is just engagement bait. 2 co-founders left in the last two days. And they are awesome, so

• @milesdeutscher Miles Deutscher on x

  This is getting out of control now... Read this slowly. In the past week alone: • Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said “the world is in peril,” moved to the UK to “become invisible” and write poetry. • Half of xAI's co-founders have now left. The latest said

• @andrewbenson Andrew Benson on x

  $20 million per month is not enough to get xAI co-founder to stay - based on early xAI rumors of 1% equity offer - and SpaceX merger pricing post all estimated dilution - Tony is worth $650 million + $20/month

• @10x_er @10x_er on x

  Loved my time at xAI but for now I'd like to pursue my passion for bee farming, I'll return to programming after the night of miracles.

• @adam_and_evs @adam_and_evs on x

  Ok, so here's an update of the xAI Rats fleeing the sinking ship. Many leaving in the past few days!!! Afraid of being associated with a fascist, racist, paedophile? Afraid of criminal charges? Something else? [image]

• @0xdevshah Dev Shah on x

  i am quitting xAI today. the team is awesome. elon is awesome. but they don't serve the best food. food is important. the company that serves good food has the best chance at agi. so i am starting a foundational food company and am announcing my partnership with xai.

• @elliotarledge Elliot Arledge on x

  I anticipate xAI engineers got A LOT of money when SpaceX acquired. I hold an assumption that they were burnt out and this gave them fresh air.

• @benjamindekr Benjamin De Kraker on x

  Significant number of xAI departures in last few weeks.

• @adam_and_evs @adam_and_evs on x

  This is the current status (as far as I can ascertain) of Pedolf's xAI Co Founders. What is still unclear is who among the remaining members has been tasked with switching off the lights and who is seeking legal counsel for their upcoming criminal trial. [image]

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  Every frontier AI lab has lost co-founder(s): - xAI: 5 of 12 gone, 1 seriously sick - OpenAI: 8 of 11 gone - Thinking Machines: 3 of 6 gone - SSI: 1 of 3 gone - DeepMind: 1 of 3 gone Except Anthropic. All 7 co-founders are still there. What's Anthropic's secret?

• @bonegpt Bone on x

  everybody leaving xAI is chinese that's what Elon gets for hiring zero whites

• @theonejvo Jamieson O'Reilly on x

  Today marks my last day at xAI. Not really, just felt left out.

• @chace_agi Chace Lee on x

  I've left xAI. As part of the founding Macrohard team, working in the war room since Day 1 was a high-velocity chapter I won't soon forget. I'm grateful for the opportunity to build alongside an exceptional team at xAI, and for the inspiration I drew from the leadership and

• @fleetingbits @fleetingbits on x

  i don't understand these posts. if next year is going to be the most important year of our species, why would you leave one of the 3-4 organizations that will have the most effect on the outcome??? it's not like he believes in pause ai

• @autismcapital @autismcapital on x

  People are most likely leaving xAI because they rolled their shares into SpaceX shares which is about to IPO at a quadrillion dollars and they're about to get giga paid. There's no incentive for them to stick around or work. They'll just sit back and watch the singularity.

• NewsMax.com NewsMax.com on x

  xAI Faces Key Exits, Musk Promises Moon Factories

• @robertscotthorton Scott Horton on bluesky

  A massive exodus of talent from Elon Musk's tech ventures continues. www.ft.com/content/3d4a...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  xAI was reorganized a few days ago to improve speed of execution. As a company grows, especially as quickly as xAI, the structure must evolve just like any living organism. This unfortunately required parting ways with some people. We wish them well in future endeavors. We are