Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has laid off around 500 employees. This includes the team that trained the Grok chatbot. The company took this step under a sudden restructuring. Business Insider has provided this information. According to the report, with this restructuring, xAI now wants to focus on specialist tutors rather than general roles. The company now wants to hire employees with expertise in areas like science, coding, finance, law, and media. These people will replace the general workers who used to work on multiple formats like text, audio, and video. The company sent an internal email to employees stating that general tutor roles are being eliminated. According to the report, employees will be paid until November 30 or until their original contract expiration date. However, the system access of terminated employees was shut down the same day (September 13). These 12 people started xAI… Now only 1000 employees will remain According to a TechSpot report, xAI’s annotation team had more than 1,500 employees, which will now be reduced to 1000. These employees helped train Grok by labeling and organizing data. This data is used to teach the chatbot how to answer questions and understand content. Team lead’s Slack access terminated Several senior managers, including former team leads, had their Slack access terminated and many employees were called one by one for review meetings about their projects and performance. On Saturday, xAI posted on social media platform X: “Specialist AI tutors at xAI are adding a lot of value. We will immediately increase our specialist AI tutor team by 10 times.” Co-founder Babushkin left the company a month ago About a month ago, xAI co-founder and former head of engineering Igor Babushkin left the company. At that time, Igor said he would start ‘Babushkin Ventures’ to work on AI safety and research. After resigning, in a post on X, Babushkin said he is leaving the company to advance ‘the next chapter’ of his mission. We want to develop artificial intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial for humanity. Elon Musk founded the company on March 9, 2023 The first information about xAI came to light in April 2023. The Wall Street Journal then reported that Elon Musk created a new company called xAI on March 9, 2023. The company’s headquarters is in Nevada, Texas, USA, and Musk is its sole listed director. Jared Birchall, director of Musk’s family office, has been appointed as the company’s secretary.
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