{"id":961611,"date":"2025-09-15T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961611"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:06:01","slug":"elon-musks-xai-fires-500-data-annotators-amid-plans-to-expand-specialist-ai-tutor-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/15\/elon-musks-xai-fires-500-data-annotators-amid-plans-to-expand-specialist-ai-tutor-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI fires 500 data annotators amid plans to expand specialist AI tutor team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>xAI, Elon Musk&#8217;s AI venture, has reportedly reduced its data annotation team by at least 500 employees, according to a Business Insider report on Friday. This team plays a crucial role in the development of Grok, xAI&#8217;s chatbot. <\/p>\n<p>The company reportedly informed employees via email on Friday night about the planned downsizing of its generalist AI tutor team, the report said, referencing multiple messages they reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xAI, Elon Musk&#8217;s AI venture, has reportedly reduced its data annotation team by at least 500 employees, according to a Business Insider report on Friday. This team plays a crucial role in the development of Grok, xAI&#8217;s chatbot. The company reportedly informed employees via email on Friday night about the planned downsizing of its generalist AI tutor team, the report said, referencing multiple messages they reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961611","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}