US EditionYet Another Co-Founder Departs Elon Musk's xAI
- On Monday, Tony Wu announced his resignation from xAI in a post on X, writing `It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what's possible`, Wu wrote.
- Over the past year, multiple founders have left or stepped back from xAI, including Tony Wu, Igor Babuschkin, and Greg Yang, reflecting ongoing leadership turnover.
- XAI launched in 2023 with 11 other people, and others including Kyle Kosic and Christian Szegedy have left or stepped back.
- Last week, SpaceX acquired xAI ahead of the company IPO this year, with documents valuing SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion.
- Regulatory probes and a French raid followed reports about Grok chatbot and image generator, which allowed mass creation of non-consensual explicit deepfake images, prompting feature restrictions and backlash.
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Elon Musk loses half his xAI founding team, researcher who resigned in few weeks says AI work is boring
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has seen two of its founding members resign this week. This brings a total of 6 out of 12 founding members to have left the firm. The latest resignations come just days after xAI was merged with SpaceX.
Resignations Shake xAI as Co-Founders Exit
Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba, co-founders of xAI, have stepped down from the AI firm created with Elon Musk. Their resignations highlight ongoing challenges within the company, as xAI faces pressure to enhance its AI models and Musk aims to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
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The Economic TimesYuhuai Tony Wu quits xAI; becomes fifth cofounder to leave Musk-led AI startup
Wu, who did not publicly attribute the exit to the company's merger with SpaceX, hinted at starting a “small team” of his own and thanked Musk “for the ride of a lifetime.”
Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk's xAI
xAI co-founder Tony Wu abruptly announced his resignation from the company late Monday night, the latest in a string of senior executives to leave the Grok-maker in recent months. In a post on social media, Wu expressed warm feelings for his time at xAI, but said it was "time for my next chapter." The current era is one where "a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what's possible," he wrote. The mention of what "a small tea…
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