Indian-origin xAI leader defends 36-hour shift claim at Elon Musk’s AI startup: ‘Let us cook’

A post by an employee at xAI — the artificial intelligence company led by Elon Musk — has triggered a conversation around work culture in Big Tech. On November 28, Parsa Tajik, a member of the technical staff at xAI, shared that he had worked for nearly 36 hours non-stop.

“Last night I left the @xai office after ~36 hours of working with no sleep. Although I was dead, I was also super energised.