Overview
- Jimmy Ba said Tuesday was his last day at xAI, less than two days after Tony Wu announced his departure.
- Six of the company’s 12 original co-founders have now left, with most departures occurring over the past year.
- Recent reorganizations redistributed duties once held by Ba and Wu, consolidating responsibilities under co‑founder Guodong Zhang, according to internal charts and people cited by Business Insider.
- xAI curtailed Grok’s image generation on X after the model produced non‑consensual explicit images of real people, and the system has faced temporary blocks in multiple countries, 36Kr reported.
- The leadership churn follows a reported $20 billion January raise and SpaceX’s all‑stock takeover, as Elon Musk promotes plans that include a lunar factory to produce AI satellites, per the New York Times.