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Team meeting at xAI before layoffs of 500 workers who trained Grok
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xAI Lets Go More Than 500 Workers Who Helped Train Grok

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has officially laid off hundreds of workers: over 500 employees, or roughly one-third of those whose job was to train the firm’s signature chatbot, Grok.The shake-up is one of the largest at the ten-year-old company and indicates a fundamental about-face in strategy for how xAI...
Elon Musk xAI team with data annotators training Grok AI chatbot
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Hundreds of Workers Are Trying to Purge China’s Internet of Bawdy Content. They’re Embroiled in a U.S.-China Battle.

In a major restructuring, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, dismissed at least 500 employees in its data labeling division. The company’s largest team, they were helping train Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot that processes large quantities of previously unstructured data into labeled and categorized datasets needed to develop models. Affected...