Elon Musk says xAI must be 'rebuilt' as co-founder exodus continues, SpaceX IPO awaits
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With xAI now in the hands of SpaceX, Elon Musk says he's rebuilding the artificial intelligence company following high-level departures.
Less than six weeks after Elon Musk merged SpaceX and xAI in a deal he valued at $1.25 trillion, the world's richest person is acknowledging that his artificial intelligence startup "was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up."
Musk took to X, which is now owned by SpaceX, to make the comment after a number of xAI's co-founders recently hit the exits. The most recent came this week, when Zihang Dai and Guodong Zhang reportedly left the company.
Last month, influential researcher Jimmy Ba announced his departure in a post on X, thanking Musk and writing that he was, "Grateful to have helped cofound at the start." That came after Tony Wu said he was leaving. Toby Pohlen followed them out the door later in February.
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