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xAI reportedly laid off at least 500 AI tutors working on Grok


xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from its data annotation team, the company's largest, according to Business Insider.

Business Insider says the laid off employees were informed via email on the evening of September 12, Friday, that it was going to downsize its team of general AI tutors. As specialist tutors, the new hires will be "enhancing [the company's] AI technologies through high-quality inputs, labels and annotations using specialized software." Elon Musk claimed during the model's reveal that if you make Grok 4 take the SATs and the GREs, it would get near perfect results every time and can answer questions it's never seen before.

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