Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)

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50+ xAI researchers and engineers have departed since SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary exits, with many joining Meta and Thinking Machines Lab.

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<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacexai-exodus-50-recent-exits-meta-thinking-machines-hire-staff"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260514/i30.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260514/p30#a260514p30" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Theo Wayt / <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacexai-exodus-50-recent-exits-meta-thinking-machines-hire-staff">Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Call it the SpaceXAI exodus.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI's Grok models have left &hellip; </p>