Discussion

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @beffjezos xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up. Same thing happened with Tesla.

• @guodzh Guodong Zhang on x

  Last day at xAI. Wild journey past three years but excited about next chapter. Thanks all for the love and support yesterday. So many friends made along the way and I will miss you all!

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Many talented people over the past few years were declined an offer or even an interview @xAI. My apologies. @BarisAkis and I are going through the company interview history and reaching back out to promising candidates.

• @imhaotian Haotian Liu on x

  I left xAI earlier this week. It was a difficult decision. The past two years have been an intense, fun, and deeply rewarding journey, and I accomplished things I could not have imagined two years ago. Thank you @elonmusk for the opportunity and for everything I learned at xAI.

• @dannydailynote @dannydailynote on x

  @Cointelegraph xAI is fighting for talent with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. In this market, culture + stability matter. Every layoff sends a signal to top researchers: maybe not the safest place to build long-term. Short-term cost cuts... but possibly hurting the talen…

• @buccocapital @buccocapital on x

  Are there people left to cut? Is it just Nikita now?

• @himanshustwts Himanshu on x

  This resignation might be truly frustrating for xAI. Zhang was: - an xAI cofounder (only two left now) - leading Grok Code + Grok Imagine - reporting directly to Elon - one of the core ML researchers behind Grok BIG! [image]

• @shaneguml Shane Gu on x

  End of xAI truly

• @marandefi DefiMaran on x

  @sivil_taram I saw more than four people leave xAI this morning

• @sivil_taram Qian Liu on x

  goodbye, my captains 👋

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  I am dedicated to living long enough to watch his entire empire collapse

• @davelee.me Dave Lee on bluesky

  Gotta wonder if much of SpaceX's success comes from the fact its talent had very few alternative companies to work for [embedded post]

• @niedermeyer.online E.W. Niedermeyer on bluesky

  looks like the actual talent is out at xAI, and Musk is “parachuting in ‘fixers’ from SpaceX and Tesla to audit the start-up”  —  all just a little bit of history repeating...  www.ft.com/content/e5fb...

• @metacurity.com Cynthia Brumfield on bluesky

  Tee hee  —  “Musk has relentlessly pushed the heavily loss-making AI start-up to catch up with rivals, but so far its Grok chatbot and coding product have failed to gain traction with paying individual users or businesses.”  [embedded post]

• r/singularity r on reddit

  ‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk's xAI is starting over again, again |  TechCrunch

• r/accelerate r on reddit

  ‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk's xAI is starting over again

• r/technology r on reddit

  ‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk's xAI is starting over again, again

• r/mlscaling r on reddit

  Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Elon Musk Says He's Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding “From the Foundations”

• r/musked r on reddit

  Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval |  Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  After losing 9 out of its original 11 cofounders, Elon Musk now claims that “xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt.”  —  Elon Musk is now reviewing resumes of people who were previously rejected from xAI to try to rebuild its staff.  —  Doesn't sound desp…

• r/siliconvalley r on reddit

  Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval