During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs by claiming he had negotiated a “rate-payer protection commitment” with big tech companies that would allow them to build or pay for new power generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, … Read more
Move over, PayPal mob: There’s a new tech mob in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. The company is now reportedly in talks to complete a $100 billion deal that values the company at more than $850 billion. Many employees have come and gone since … Read more
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more cluttered,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders … Read more
The past few days have been a wild ride for xAI, racking up employee and co-founder departure announcements left and right. On Tuesday and Wednesday, co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced his departure and that it was “time for (his) next chapter,” with co-founder Jimmy Ba following a similar post later in the day, writing that … Read more
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of releasing the entire 45-minute video of the all-hands meeting to the public on X. Details of Tuesday night’s meeting were previously reported by The New York Times, which may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online. The full video reveals significant new details about Musk’s … Read more
Since the xAI-SpaceX merger was announced last week, bringing the two companies together (as well as the social media platform, some have also announced they are starting their own AI companies. Co-founder Yuhai (Tony) Wu announced his departure on X, writing that it was “time for (his) next chapter. Jimmy Ba, another co-founder, posted something … Read more
Elon Musk is dealing with a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six from the original 12. At yesterday’s all-hands meeting, Musk suggested that outputs should be about fit, not performance. “Because we’ve reached a certain scale, we’re organizing the company to be more … Read more
On Monday evening, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced that he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in an overnight post on X. “It’s an era of full possibilities: a small team armed with AI can move mountains and redefine what’s possible.” Less than a day later, on Tuesday … Read more