Memo: xAI is reorganizing its engineering team, as SpaceX SVP Michael Nicolls says xAI is “clearly behind”; source: Nicolls has taken the title of xAI president
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its San Francisco HQ, London, and Zurich
Kyle Kosic joins Project Prometheus, the secretive start-up working on systems that can understand the physical world
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator
Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023. — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator
Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023. — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.
Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO
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Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO
Redundant roles have been removed as the social-media company tries to boost profit and integrate with Musk's space-exploration company
Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla
xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to “catch up and exceed our competitors” in coding by mid-2026
and Musk says he's rebuildingVictor Tangermann /Futurism:Elon Musk Orders Sweeping Layoffs as xAI Fails to Catch UpMichael Kan /PCMag:Grok, Is This True? Musk Says xAI Needs to Be ‘Rebuilt’ As Co-Foun...
Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla
Tesla and SpaceX managers sent in to review work as billionaire's start-up struggles to keep pace with rivals
Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla
Tesla and SpaceX managers sent in to review work as billionaire's start-up struggles to keep pace with rivals