AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent in recent weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI faces upheavals of its own, from disbanding its mission alignment team to firing a policy manager who opposed its “adult mode” feature.
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