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We don’t need these AI tutors: Elon Musk’s xAI says in internal memo to employees as it asks 500 Grok trainers to exit

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, has laid off at least 500 workers on its data annotation team, a report claims. The company’s employees were reportedly notified via email that ...
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Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok

XAI laid off about a third of its data annotation team, reducing staff by about 500 workers. The layoffs follow a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles. XAI's ...
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Elon Musk’s Startup xAI Is Laying Off 500 Employees Who Worked on Training Its Grok Chatbot: ‘Strategic Pivot’

Elon Musk’s xAI let go of 500 AI tutors on its data annotation team on Friday night. AI tutors label and contextualize data for Grok, enabling the chatbot to advance. xAI is still hiring AI tutors ...
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Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok

Elon Musk's xAI laid off at least 500 workers on its data annotation team on Friday night. The company sent out emails notifying employees that it was planning to downsize its team of generalist AI ...