{"id":998434,"date":"2026-03-16T08:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998434"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:25:10","slug":"who-is-aman-gottumukkala-indian-origin-techie-joins-musks-xai-after-building-firebender-with-just-3-person-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/who-is-aman-gottumukkala-indian-origin-techie-joins-musks-xai-after-building-firebender-with-just-3-person-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Aman Gottumukkala? Indian-origin techie joins Musk\u2019s xAI after building Firebender with just 3-person team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aman Gottumukkala, a Texas-based software engineer known for building the AI coding startup Firebender, has announced that he is joining xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. The Indian-origin techie built Firebender, an AI coding assistant designed especially for Android developers. With a team of just three people, the startup generated millions in revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aman Gottumukkala, a Texas-based software engineer known for building the AI coding startup Firebender, has announced that he is joining xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. The Indian-origin techie built Firebender, an AI coding assistant designed especially for Android developers. With a team of just three people, the startup generated millions in revenue.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998434","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=998434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}