Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI
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Key Points:
- Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has seen the departure of all its co-founders, with the last two, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, leaving recently.
- Kroiss led xAI’s pretraining team, while Nordeen, Musk’s “right-hand operator,” previously worked at Tesla and helped plan Twitter layoffs after Musk’s acquisition.
- Musk acknowledged that xAI “was not built right the first time” and is now being “rebuilt from the foundations up.”
- xAI was recently acquired by SpaceX, consolidating SpaceX, xAI, and X (formerly Twitter) under one corporate umbrella amid SpaceX’s plans to go public.
- TechCrunch has contacted xAI for comment on the co-founders’ departures.
