Overview
- Ross Nordeen, who served as Elon Musk’s right-hand operator, left the company Friday, making Musk the only original founder still at xAI.
- SpaceX bought xAI in February, and the group is being reorganized as Musk prepares the rocket company for an initial public offering.
- Musk said this month that xAI “was not built right first time around” and is “being rebuilt from the foundations up.”
- The shakeup has cut projects and staff, including parts of Grok Imagine for images and video and the Macrohard AI agent effort, with dozens of employees departing.
- xAI has begun new hiring, adding nearly a dozen people in recent weeks, including Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, to shore up coding and product gaps with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.