Elon Musk’s xAI lays off 500 workers tasked with training Grok. What layoff email said

Elon Musk’s xAI laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team on Friday night. The data annotation team was tasked with training xAI’s generative AI chatbot, Grok.

According to a Business Insider report, an email sent to affected employees on Friday night informed them that the AI company was scaling back its focus on general AI tutors, while prioritizing and expanding its focus on specialist AI tutors.