Key engineers leave xAI as 2 co-founders walk out to launch a new startup

� More than 10 well-known engineers and researchers have left xAI in the past 24 hours. Among them are two co-founders, Jimmy Ba and Yuhuai Wu.

� In total, 6 of the company’s 12 co-founders have now exited within a few years of its launch. The latest group appears to be moving together. They hint at building something new and are already hiring, though no official details have been shared.

� The departures are unfolding as xAI is being absorbed by SpaceX and faces investigations linked to Grok’s erotic content generation.

A young AI lab is losing half its founding bench while a new one forms next door.

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