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xAI Reportedly Asked Employees For Their Tax Returns To Train a Model But Hasn't Paid Them Yet
Managers offered employees early access to X Money and cash for tax returns, but many payments never arrived, Bloomberg reported.
- Earlier this year, Elon Musk's xAI promised employees $420 for personal tax returns to train the Grok chatbot, but those payments have yet to materialize.
- The company scrambled to improve Grok's capabilities before the April 15 tax deadline, aiming to compete with rivals including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude.
- Managers later expanded the solicitation beyond employees to include friends and family, additionally promising volunteers early access to X Money, the payments platform for the social network X.
- Two months after submitting sensitive financial data, staff report the promised cash has not arrived, with some employees told the manager overseeing the program is no longer employed.
- Musk previously faced SEC scrutiny over a $420 share price claim, and the company continues pushing for growth as SpaceX, which now owns xAI, prepares to go public later this year.
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Musk Promised xAI Employees $420 for Their Tax Returns and Then Just… Didn't Pay
Ever had a boss promise to pay you for work done only for them to stiff you? That’s something that xAI staff are facing right now, where according to a recent Bloomberg report, xAI CEO Elon Musk apparently owes a bunch of employees $420. Musk reportedly owes employees for data For those unfamiliar, xAI is an AI company that Musk created after leaving OpenAI. Now, AI works best when it is being trained with all kinds of data. This allows it to ma…
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