{"id":961488,"date":"2025-09-13T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961488"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:54:04","slug":"we-dont-need-these-ai-tutors-elon-musks-xai-says-in-internal-memo-to-employees-as-it-asks-500-grok-trainers-to-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/we-dont-need-these-ai-tutors-elon-musks-xai-says-in-internal-memo-to-employees-as-it-asks-500-grok-trainers-to-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t need these AI tutors: Elon Musk\u2019s xAI says in internal memo to employees as it asks 500 Grok trainers to exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, has laid off at least 500 workers on its data annotation team, a report claims. The company\u2019s employees were reportedly notified via email that the company was downsizing its team of generalist AI tutors. The report cited internal messages to claim that the laid-off workers were told they would be paid through either the end of their contract or November 30. Their access to company systems was terminated the day they received the notice, the report notes.<\/p>\n<p>What xAI said about laying off Grok trainers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, has laid off at least 500 workers on its data annotation team, a report claims. The company\u2019s employees were reportedly notified via email that the company was downsizing its team of generalist AI tutors. The report cited internal messages to claim that the laid-off workers were told they would be paid through either the end of their contract or November 30. Their access to company systems was terminated the day they received the notice, the report notes. What xAI said about laying off Grok trainers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}