{"id":41761,"date":"2025-09-03T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/41761\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:15:11","slug":"xais-cfo-is-the-latest-executive-to-leave-elon-musks-ai-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/41761\/","title":{"rendered":"xAI\u2019s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk\u2019s AI firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Liberatore, xAI\u2019s chief financial officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/xais-cfo-steps-down-the-latest-in-a-string-of-executive-departures-e778fce7?mod=e2twd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has left the company<\/a>, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. This marks the latest in a string of high-profile executive departures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Airbnb executive joined the company in April and left around the end of July, per the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While at xAI, he helped orchestrate the company\u2019s $5 billion debt raise, alongside another $5 billion in equity \u2014 almost half of which came from SpaceX. He also oversaw some of the Elon Musk-owned AI firm\u2019s data center expansion in Memphis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberatore\u2019s departure comes after xAI\u2019s general counsel, Robert Keele, left in August \u2014 a little over a year on the job. Raghu Rao, a senior lawyer, left around the same time as Keele and Liberatore, per the WSJ. Igor Babuschkin, an xAI co-founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/13\/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-the-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced his departure last month<\/a>, saying he left the company to launch his own VC firm dedicated to AI safety research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linda Yaccarino, former CEO of X, also <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/09\/linda-yaccarino-steps-down-as-ceo-of-elon-musks-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">resigned in July<\/a> following concerning behavior from Grok, xAI\u2019s chatbot that can be accessed through X. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/29\/elon-musk-says-xai-acquired-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">xAI acquired X<\/a> in late March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Liberatore, xAI\u2019s chief financial officer, has left the company, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,1647,19,6257,17,82,11380],"class_list":{"0":"post-41761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-in-brief","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-xai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}