Elon Musk’s xAI Lays Off 500 Staff in Major Restructuring of Grok Training Team
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has carried out a sweeping overnight restructuring of its data annotation division, resulting in the layoff of about 500 employees. The affected team had been instrumental in training Grok, xAI’s chatbot competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to an internal email obtained by Business Insider, xAI announced plans to shift…