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Earlier this month, it appeared that all but two of Elon Musk’s 11 co-founders of his AI startup xAI had left the company. Now, according to Business Insider, the two remaining co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, have also left.
BI said Wednesday that Kroiss had told people he was leaving xAIthen reported that Nordeen left the company on Friday.
Musk recently claimed that xAI “wasn’t built properly” [the] first time”, so it is now “being rebuilt from the ground up”. The company was recently acquired by SpaceX from Muskbringing SpaceX, xAI andformerly Twitter) united under one corporate umbrella, all as SpaceX would be I plan to go public.
Both Kroiss and Nordeen reported directly to Musk, according to BI, with Kroiss leading the company’s pre-training team, while Nordeen was Musk’s “right-hand man.” Nordeen reportedly came to xAI from Tesla and was involved in planning significant layoffs at Twitter after Musk acquired the company in 2022.
TechCrunch has contacted xAI for comment.
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