Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

AI companies have been bleeding talent in recent weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI faces its own shake-up, from the dissolution of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy staffer who opposed the “adult mode” feature.

Watch TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast’s Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into the week’s biggest deals and exits, from multibillion-dollar bets on mergers and robotics to the tech exodus that is reshaping AI companies.

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