Elon Musk’s xAI lays off 500 jobs amid strategy shift to Specialist AI tutors: Report
By
Neha Kumari
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has laid off around 500 employees from its data annotation team, according to a report by Business Insider. The move, communicated late on Friday evening, affects workers who were responsible for training the company’s generative AI chatbot, Grok.
xAI lays off 500 data annotation staff
As per the report, in an email sent to staff, xAI said it was reducing its focus on developing general AI tutors and would instead concentrate resources on specialist AI tutors.
