{"id":421423,"date":"2025-09-13T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:39:11","slug":"elon-musks-xai-drops-the-axe-biggest-team-wiped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421423\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI Drops the Axe: Biggest Team Wiped Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/xai_11757749782.jpg\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"Musk's xAI Drops the Axe: Biggest Team Wiped Out\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has reportedly laid off at least 500 employees from its data annotation team, which plays a key role in training the company\u2019s Grok chatbot, according to Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs were announced in an email sent to staff on Friday night, informing them that the company was cutting its team of generalist AI tutors.<\/p>\n<p>Impacted employees were told they would receive pay through the end of their contracts or until November 30, but their access to company systems would be cut off immediately.<\/p>\n<p>In response to requests for comment, xAI pointed to a post on X stating that it is actively hiring across various roles and intends to expand its specialist AI tutor team by \u201c10X.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The data annotation unit, the company\u2019s largest team, is responsible for teaching Grok to interpret the world by labeling and contextualizing raw data, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the departure of xAI\u2019s chief financial officer, Mike Liberatore, who left the company in late July after just a few months in the role, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Musk launched xAI in 2023 to rival Big Tech in the AI race, criticizing existing players for what he described as excessive censorship and weak safety standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has reportedly laid off at least 500 employees from its data annotation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,295,36355,53,16,15,1604],"class_list":{"0":"post-421423","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-elon-musk","11":"tag-lay-offs","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-xai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115197743142586040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}