xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team

Elon Musk’s AI Startup Xai fired on Friday evening, according to 500 team members, according to Internal messages viewed by Business Insider.

These e -mails are reportedly announcing an immediate ‘strategic pivot’, whereby the company decides to accelerate the expansion and priorities of our specialized AI teachers, while shielding our focus on general AI tutrollen ‘.

“As part of this shift in Focus, we no longer need the most generalist AI tutor positions and will conclude your employment at Xai,” Xai reportedly wrote.

According to Business Insider, these cutbacks represent about a third of the XAIs 1500-person data annotation team-the team that works on labeling and preparing data used to train Xai’s Chatbot Grok.

When contacted for confirmation, pointed Xai An explanation on X (The social network that is owned by it earlier this year) and declares that the company “our specialist AI Tutor team will immediately rise by 10x.”

“We hire in domains such as voice, finance, medicine, safety and much more,” the company said.