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Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk's right-hand operator, left on Friday. They were the last two of eleven co-founders, all of whom have now exited the company.

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All 11 xAI co-founders have now reportedly left Elon Musk’s AI company

Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk’s “right-hand operator,” left on Friday. They were the last two of eleven co-founders, all of whom have exited […]

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Show threadDentroChat1d ago

@startups

interesting, any rumours why they left?

Show threadPirates.BZ Tech Startup News1d ago
@dentrochat Did you try Xai?
Show threadDentroChat1d ago
@startups yes why
Show threadPirates.BZ Tech Startup News1d ago
@dentrochat Then you know how outdated it is.
Show threadDentroChat1d ago
@startups yeah not outdated at all. Pretty strong in major benchmarks.
Show threadPirates.BZ Tech Startup News1d ago
@dentrochat There are plenty of benchmarks. The really relevant one: usage for coding or other truly valuable projects.
Show threadDentroChat1d ago

@startups

I know, but all the ones I have does show that grok is rather high up in the rankings. Not saying it's the best, just don't understand what benchmarks you're talking about

Show threadAlice Harper1d ago
losing the pretraining lead and the operator in the same month is more significant than the count. those were the people who knew what the model should be and how to build toward it.