Last week, two other xAI founders, Guodong Zhang and Zihang Dai, left the company. That led to Elon Musk saying that he would rebuild xAI. That said, what should you know about it?
Only two remain
For your information, only two of the 13 xAI founders remain at the company. Zhang was the head of xAI’s imagination team and was reportedly demoted by Musk because the company’s programming products were seen as uncompetitive compared to Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex.
Moreover, he resigned on Thursday. They were replaced by Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, who previously worked on the programming AI development team at Cursor. In a response to X, Musk said XAI was not built properly to begin with, so it will be “rebuilt” as he did at Tesla.
From the beginning, xAI’s direction was unclear. Other AI companies were developing paid products for productivity and creativity, but Grok was only known as an AI that generated obscene images (until xAI was sued) and a fact-checking machine at X.
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